Lecture Notes
These notes will normally
appear 12 to 24 hours after class has met.
You should always read through them
even if you were in class.
They're often put together is a hurry,
so keep an eye out for typos.
Tue., Dec. 8 - Last day of
class, grade summaries, information about the Final Exam,
in-class written anonymous comments about the class/course
Thu., Dec. 3 - Quiz #4 (music: LeAnn Rimes "I Fall to
Pieces" (2:59), Isabelle boulay "La Bhoeme"
(4:07), Etta James "Beware"
(3:43), Celia Cruz "Rie Y
Llora" (3:21),
Janis Joplin "Kozmic
Blues" (4:25)
Tue., Dec. 1 - Hurricanes
Thu., Nov. 26 - Thanksgiving Holiday
Tue., Nov. 24 - Lightning
Thu., Nov. 19 - Tornadoes pt. 2: life
cycle, hook echo, Fujita scale and tornado damage
Tue., Nov. 17
- Thunderstorms pt. 2 - gust fronts, haboobs,
microbursts; severe thunderstorms and wall clouds.
Tornadoes pt. 1 - characteristics
Thu., Nov. 12 - Surface winds
in the N & S hemisphere, water draining from sinks
and toilets, thunderstorms pt. 1
Cause
of the Coriolis Force - Optional reading
Tue., Nov. 10 - Newton's
1st law of
motion,
pressure
gradient and
Coriolis
forces, upper
level and
surface winds
in the
northern &
southern
hemispheres
Thu.,
Nov. 5 - Quiz #3 (music: Koop
"Come to
Me" (2:50), Eva Cassidy "It
Don't Mean a Thing (if ain't got that swing)" (2:23),
Eva Cassidy "Won't
Be Long" (3:38),
"Ain't
Doin Too Bad" (3:46), Amy Winehouse "You Know
I'm No Good" (4:27), "Back to
Black" (4:08), Dum Dum Girls "Under
These Hands" (3:34),
Nouvelle Vague "In a
Manner of Speaking" (3:58)
Tue., Nov. 3 -
Precipitation producing processes pt. 2: cold clouds and
the ice crystal process, types of precipitation
Thu., Oct. 29 - Identifying and
naming clouds pt. 2, precipitation producing processes pt. 1:
the collision-coalescence process
Tue., Oct. 27 - Condensation
nuclei, haze & fog, cloud in a bottle, identifying and
naming clouds pt. 1
Saturating the air
with water vapor - Suggested reading
Thu.,
Oct. 22 - Humidity
problems, drying moist air, the rainshadow
effect, measuring humidity, heat index
Tue., Oct. 20 - Final look at
energy balance on the earth, global warming misconception,
effects of clouds on daytime and nighttime temperatures,
humidity variables
Thu., Oct. 15 - Quiz #2 (music: Gershwin "Rhapsody
in Blue", Ravel "Bolero
(Copenhagen Central Train Station)", Grieg "Peer
Gynt (Copenhagen Metro)",
Naturally 7 "In
the Air Tonight (Paris Metro)"
Tue., Oct. 13 - Light
emitted by the earth & sun, radiative equilibrium,
filtering effect of the atmosphere, the atmospheric
greenhouse effect
Thu., Oct. 8
- Electromagnetic
radiation, rules governing the emission of EM
radiation, EM radiation emitted by the earth
and sun
Tue., Oct. 6 - Energy transport by
conduction, convection, and laent heat
Upper level charts pt.
3 - Supplementary reading
Upper level charts pt.
2 - Supplementary reading
Upper level
charts pt.1 - Required reading
Thu., Oct. 1 - Upper
level charts (brief mention), introduction to
energy and energy transport, measuring the energy
needed to evaporate liquid nitrogen
Tue., Sep. 29 - Weather
changes associated with warm and cold fronts, locating
warm and cold fronts on a surface weather map
Thu., Sep. 24 - Quiz #1 ((music: Andrea
Bocelli, Laura Pausini "Dare
To Live", Andrea
Bocelli, Elisa "La
Voce del Silenzio",
Elisa "Dancing")
Tue., Sep. 22 - Surface
weather maps, isobars & isotherms, high &
low pressure centers, pressure gradients, warm & cold
fronts
Thu., Sep. 17 - Archimedes law,
Galileo thermometer, station model notation used on surface
weather maps
Tue., Sep. 15 - The ideal gas law,
Charles' Law, vertical forces acting on air parcels
Thu., Sep. 10 - Changes in air
temperature with altitude - troposphere & stratosphere;
Auguste, Jacques, & Bertrand Piccard
Tue., Sep. 8 - Pressure units;
mercury barometer; average & extreme values of sea level
pressure; pressure decreases with increasing altitude;
air pressure pushes downward, upward, and sideways; air
density decreases with increasing altitude (maybe)
Thu., Sep. 3 - Acid rain
(demonstration); particulate matter; mass, weight, density,
and pressure
Tue., Sep. 1 - Tropospheric ozone
& photochemical (LA-type) smog; sulfur dioxide,
London-type smog and acid rain
Thu., Aug. 27 - Trace
gases in the atmosphere and air pollutants, carbon
monoxide, light scattering, air quality index
Tue., Aug. 25 - First
day of class, composition of the atmosphere, dew point
temperature