Tue., Dec. 13 - Final Exam (music: Blind Boys of Alabama "I Shall Not be Moved" (4:15), "Amazing Grace" (6:15), "If I Had a Hammer" (5:02) )
Tue., Dec. 6 - Last day of class, information about the Final Exam, in-class evaluation (optional)

Thu., Dec. 1 - Quiz #4 (music: Dessa "Skeleton Key" (3:38), "Mineshaft II" (4:21), "Sound The Bells" (4:23), "Sadie Hawkins" (3:29).  Listen to Dessa discuss what it takes to
                                      write and sing songs of this style)
Tue., Nov. 29 - Hurricanes
Thu., Nov. 24 - Thanksgiving Holiday
Tue., Nov. 22 - Lightning
Thu., Nov. 17 - Tornadoes pt. 2: life cycle, enhanced Fujita scale & tornado damage
 Tue., Nov. 15 - Thunderstorms pt. 2: life cycle, gust fronts, haboobs, microbursts; severe thunderstorms, mesocyclones and wall clouds
                         Tornadoes pt. 1: tornado occurrence and characteristics       
Thu., Nov. 10 - Surface winds, water draining from sinks and toilets in the N. & S. hemispheres, thunderstorms pt. 1: development and air mass Tstorm life cycle
Cause of the Coriolis force - Optional reading
Tue., Nov. 8 - Understanding why surface and upper level winds blow the way they do, Newton's 1st law of motion, Coriolis force, winds in the N. & S. hemispheres

Thu., Nov. 3 - Quiz #3 (music:  Copenhagen Philharmonic Symphony "Ravel's Bolero" (4:52), Grieg's "Peer Gynt" (2:16),
                        Naturally 7 performing Phil Collin's "In the Air Tonight" in the Paris Metro (5:12) All Soul's Procession 2016 (Nov. 5-6),
                        scenes from the 2012 All Soul's Procession featuring Batucaxe (1:06)
Tue., Nov. 1 - The ice crystal process, types of precipitation
Thu., Oct. 27 - Precipitation formation in clouds
Tue., Oct. 25 - Identifying and naming clouds
Thu., Oct. 20 - Drying moist air, the rainshadow effect, measuring humidity, wind chill & heat index, the drinking bird,
                         condensation nuclei, haze & fog, cloud in a bottle demonstration (maybe)
Tue., Oct. 18 - Humidity variables & a couple of humidity example problems

Upper level charts pt. 3 - Supplementary reading
Upper level charts pt. 2 - Supplementary reading
Upper level charts pt. 1 -"Suggested" reading (this material comes with an Optional Assignment)
Controls of climate - Optional reading (that comes with an embedded Optional Assignment)

Thu., Oct. 13 - Quiz #2 (music: George Gershwin "Rhapsody in Blue" (16:24) with photographs from New York City)
Tue., Oct. 11 - EM radiation emitted by the earth & sun, radiative equilibrium, filtering effect of the atmosphere on light, atmospheric greenhouse effect
Thu., Oct. 6 - Latent heat energy transport, electromagnetic (EM) radiation, rules governing the emission of EM radiation
Tue., Oct. 4 - Types of energy, temperature & temperature scales, specific heat & water's moderating effect on climate,
                      energy transport by conduction and convection, and (hopefully) latent heat
Supplementary reading - Introduction to energy, energy transport, and energy balance
Thu., Sep. 29 - Three-dimensional structure of fronts and the weather changes they produce, locating fronts on a surface weather map
Tue., Sep. 27 - Surface weather map features: isobars & isotherms,  high & low pressure centers and the winds that blow around them,
                        pressure gradients, warm & cold fronts, and perhaps a little more

Thu., Sep. 22 - Quiz #1 (music: Haelos "Pray" (5:31), Earth Not Above (4:51), "Dust" (5:00), "Oracle" (5:11) )
Tue., Sep. 20 - The station model notation used to plot weather data on surface weather maps
Archimedes' principle - Supplementary reading
Thu., Sep. 15 - Rising and sinking air, the ideal gas law, Charles' law, vertical forces acting on air parcels
Early study and exploration of the upper atmosphere; Auguste, Jacques, and Bertrand Piccard - Optional reading
Tue., Sep. 13 - Mercury barometer, average & extreme sea level pressure values,
                         upward & sideways air pressure force, changes in air density with altitude, troposphere & stratosphere
Thu., Sep. 8 - The downward (and upward and sideways) force of air pressure, acid rain, Practice Quiz
Tue., Sep. 6 - Mass, weight, density & pressure
Thu., Sep. 1 - Tropospheric ozone & Los Angeles type smog, particulate matter, sulfur dioxide & acid rain
Symptoms of CO poisoning & the Air Quality Index (AQI) - Supplementary reading
The air pollution health threat - Optional reading
Tue., Aug. 30 - Trace gases in the atmosphere, air pollutants, carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide & London type smog, light scattering
Thu., Aug. 25 - Dew point temperature & the summer monsoon, origin and evolution of the earth's atmosphere
Tue., Aug. 23 -  First day of class, composition of the atmosphere and dew point temperature