May 05 - Last day of class, information about the Final Exam, hurricanes
Apr. 28 - Tornadoes Pt. 2 damage, lightning
Apr. 23 - Tornadoes Pt. 1 characteristics
Apr. 21 - Thunderstorms, gust fronts, microbursts
Thermal circulations - Optional reading
Apr. 16 - Surface winds in the northern & southern hemispheres, water draining from sinks & toilets; 3-cell model of global scale wind and pressure belts
Cause of the Coriolis force
Apr. 14 - Newton's 1st law of motion, pressure gradient and Coriolis forces, upper level and surface winds in the northern & southern hemispheres

Apr. 09 - Quiz #3 (music: Sigur Ros "Festival", "Gooan Daginn", "Olsen Olsen", "Von"
Apr. 7 - Cold clouds, the ice crystal process, types of precipitation
Apr. 2 - Identifying and name clouds, precipitation producing processes
Mar. 31 - Condensation nuclei, cloud in a bottle, cloud types - altitude and appearance
Mar. 26 - Humidity problems, drying moist air, the rainshadow effect, measuring humidity, heat index, the drinking bird?
Saturating the air with water vapor - suggested reading
Mar. 24 - Realistic energy balance on the earth, effects of clouds on high and low temperatures, global warming misconception, introduction to humidity variables

Mar. 12 - Quiz #2 (music: Playing for Change "Groove in G", Ballyhoo! "She Wants to Destroy Me", "Overnight Sensation", "Walk Away", "Battle Cry",
                             "Cali Girl", The Specials "A Message to You, Rudy")
Mar. 10 - Light emitted by the earth & sun, radiative equilibrium, filtering effect of the atmosphere, the atmospheric greenhouse effect
Mar. 5 - Electromagnetic radiation, rules governing the emission of EM radiation, compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) and color temperature
Mar. 3 - 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/suggested reading
Feb. 26 - Upper level charts (brief mention), introduction to energy and energy transport, measuring the energy needed to evaporate liquid nitrogen
Feb. 24 - Weather changes associated with warm and cold fronts, locating warm and cold fronts on a surface weather map

Feb. 19 - Quiz #1 (music: Andrea Bocelli, Laura Pausini "Dare To Live", Andrea Bocelli, Elisa "La Voce del Silenzio", Elisa "Dancing"
Feb. 17 - Surface weather maps, high and low pressure centers, pressure gradients, warm and cold fronts
Feb. 12 - The station model notation, Galileo thermometers and lava lamps
Feb. 10 - Charles law; forces that cause air to rise and sink; Archimedes principle; Auguste, Jacques, & Bertrand Piccard
Feb. 05 - The ideal gas law, Practice Quiz
Feb. 03 - Rate of pressure decrease with altitude; air pressure pushes upward, downward, & sideways; air density changes with altitude;
                  principle of the mercury barometer; and troposphere & stratosphere (maybe)
Jan. 29 - Mass, weight, density, and pressure
Jan. 27 - Air quality index, carbon monoxide poisoning, sulfur dioxide & London-type smog, acid rain, particulate matter
Jan. 22 - Air pollutants, carbon monoxide, ozone and photochemical smog, scattering of light
Jan. 20 - Origin & evolution of the earth's atmosphere; oxygen and ozone;
                 photosynthesis, stromatolites and banded iron formation; trace gases and pollutants
Jan. 15 -  First day of class, composition of the atmosphere, dew point temperature