Reading material for Lectures

Material for Exam #1
August 27	Introduction to 500 mb Height Maps Winds at the 500 mb Height Level; Southwest Monsoon Season
September 1	Discuss Term Paper Winds; Pressure and Winds on Common Weather Maps
September 3	Winds; Pressure and Winds on Common Weather Maps(Continued) Hurricane Introduction and Characteristics Hurricane Movement and Damages
September 8	Hurricane Movement and Damages(Continued) Hurricane Cycles in the Atlantic, Links to Climate Change, Hurricane Damage and Death Trends
September 10	Hurricane Cycles in the Atlantic, Links to Climate Change, Hurricane Damage and Death Trends(Last section) The atmosphere Some properties of gases Composition of the Atmosphere
September 15	Vertical Structure of Temperature, Density, and Pressure Human response to air pressure and density changes The Skew-T Diagram
September 17	Water in the atmosphere A closer look at evaporation and condensation In-class text notes (WORD document) End of Exam 1 Material
Material for Exam #2
September 29	Relative humidity and Dew Point Relative Humidity and Dew Point Notes (WORD document) Energy Transfer
October 1	Temperature, humidity, wind, and human comfort Clouds Why Does Rising Air Cool? Conditions under which air is forced to rise Precipitation
October 6	Moving air parcels up and down through the atmosphere Stability of the atmosphere Introduction to Thunderstorms
October 8	Thunderstorm Lifecycle and Severe Thunderstorms Tornadoes
October 13	Lightning Hurricane Energetics
October 15	Impacts of Extreme Weather; Possible Trends in Severe Weather Ozone and the ozone hole Ultraviolet radiation and its effects WORD Document Containing in-class text notes on Ozone and UV Exposure
October 20	Ultraviolet radiation and its effects (Continued) WORD Document Containing in-class text notes on Ozone and UV Exposure Review 500 mb height maps Review 500 mb winds; Estimating Precipitation areas from 500 mb maps Weather forecasting using 500 mb height maps
October 22	The 500 mb weather pattern and weather terminology A crash course in cyclogenesis Numerical Weather Forecasting End of Exam 2 Material
Material for Exam #3
November 3	Weather vs Climate Introduction to Climate Change WORD Document Containing in-class text notes on Climate, Climate Change, and Global Warming Solar Radiation and the Earth's Energy Budget I WORD Document Containing in-class text notes on Radiation and Radiative Equilibrium Temperature
November 5	Infrared Radiation, Greenhouse Effect, and Earth's Energy Budget II Increasing Greenhouse Gases Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide and the Carbon Cycle WORD Document Containing in-class text notes on Carbon Cycle
November 10	Uncertainty in Climate Prediction and Climate Models Climate Models and their Prediction of Climate Change WORD Document Containing in-class text notes on feedbacks in the climate system
November 12	Potential Impacts of Global Warming Reconstructing Past Climates The Climate of the Pleistocene Is Life on Earth Fragile or Robust? WORD Document Containing in-class text notes on Climate History
November 17	The Climate of the Holocene WORD Document Containing in-class text notes on Climate History Controversy: Global Average Temperature Reconstruction over the last 2000 years The Present Warming: 20th Centrury through today Global Warming Summary and Discussion
November 19	Global Warming Summary and Discussion(Continued) Seasons / Seasonal Changes on Earth WORD Document Containing in-class text notes on Seasonal Changes
November 24	Seasons / Seasonal Changes on Earth(Continued) Factors that control climate Blue skies, red sunsets, white clouds, haze WORD Document Containing in-class text notes End of Exam 3 material