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 latent 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