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01/02/2009
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| Monday Lecture | Wednesday Lecture | Friday Lecture | Discussion Section | |
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| Week 1 | January 5 Intro/Ch. 1: Course Syllabus Review; Composition of the Earth's Atmosphere (pp. 2-7) |
January 7 Ch. 1: Vertical Temperature and Pressure Structure; Atmospheric Layers (pp. 8-13); |
January 9 |
Hello! Expectations, policies, preview of course |
| Week 2 | January 12 Ch. 1: Weather Observations cont. RADAR and Satellite Ch. 2: Heat, Temperature, Sensible and Latent Heat (pp. 26-28); |
January 14 Ch. 2: Conduction and Convection (pp. 38-30, 39); Electromagnetic Radiation; Radiative Equilibrium Lecture Quiz #1 |
January 16 Ch. 2: Albedo (pp. 40-41); Energy Balance (pp. 41-42); Latitudinal Energy Balance and Weather (pp. 42-43) |
Discussion Quiz #1; review of Ch. 1 |
| Week 3 | January 19 Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday |
January 21 Ch. 3: Daily Temperature Variations (pp. 56-59); Controls of Temperature (p. 63) Ch. 3: Wind Chill (pp. 69-71) |
January 23 Ch. 4: Humidity: Hydrologic Cycle (pp. 80-81) Ch. 4: Saturation; Vapor Pressure; Relative Humdity; |
Greenhouse Effect; review of radiation and energy |
| Week 4 | January 26 Ch. 4: Dew Point (pp. 81-87); Heat Index (p. 88-89); Dew and Frost (pp. 91-92); Condensation Nuclei and Hazes (p. 92) Take-home Quiz #1 due |
January 28 Ch. 4: Fogs (pp. 93-95) Ch. 5: Fog vs. Cloud Formation Lecture Quiz #2 |
January 30 Ch. 5: Dry and Moist Adiabatic Processes (p. 112-113); Lapse Rates; Atmospheric Stability (pp. 113-117) |
Discussion Quiz #2; review of temperature and humidity |
| Week 5 | February 2 Ch. 5: Convective Cloud Formation and Lifting Mechanisms (pp. 117-120) |
February 4 Ch. 5: Precipitation Formation Mechanisms (pp. 121-124) |
February 6 EXAM #1 |
Review of fogs and adiabatic processes; review for Exam #1 |
| Week 6 | February 9 Ch. 5: Cloud Seeding (pp. 124-125); Precipitation Types (pp. 126-134) |
February 11 Ch. 5: Precipitation Types cont. Ch. 6: Atmospheric Pressure vs. Height (pp. 142-143) Lecture Quiz #3 |
February 13 Ch. 6: Pressure Charts (pp. 147-149); Pressure Gradient Force (pp. 151-152); Coriolis Force (pp. 152-154) |
Discussion Quiz #3; cloud nomenclature |
| Week 7 | February 16 President's Day Holiday |
February 18 Ch. 6: Friction; Geostrophic Winds (pp. 154-156); Surface Winds (pp. 158-159); Vertical Air Motion vs. Surface Circulation (pp. 159-160) Take-home Quiz #2 due |
February 20 Ch. 7: Size Scales, Turbulence, Thermal Circulations, Sea/Land Breezes (pp. 170-175), |
Review of atmospheric forces |
| Week 8 | February 23 Ch. 7: Mountain/Valley Breezes (p. 178); Monsoons (pp. 176-177); Chinook and Santa Ana Winds (pp. 179-182) |
February 25 Ch. 7: Global Circulation; Global Surface Winds and Pressure Distribution (pp. 184-189); Upper Westerlies (ch. 6, p. 157) Lecture Quiz #4 |
February 27 Ch. 7: Jet Streams (pp. 189-192); El Niño/La Niña (pp. 194-197) |
Review of wind systems |
| Week 9 | March 2 Ch. 8: Air Masses (pp. 204-205); Weather Fronts (pp. 214-222) |
March 4 Ch. 8: Middle Latitude Cyclones (pp. 222-228) |
March 6 Ch. 8: Middle Latitude Cyclones cont. Ch. 3-6: Weather Instrumentation |
Discussion Quiz #4; review local and global winds; fronts |
| Week 10 | March 9 Ch. 10: Thunderstorms (pp. 264-276); Lightning (pp. 277-281) Take-home Quiz #3 due |
March 11 Ch. 10: Tornadoes (pp. 283- 288) Lecture Quiz #5 |
March 13 Ch. 10: Tornado Formation and Detection (pp. 288-294) Professor Evaluations |
TA Evaluations; review for Exam #2 |
| Finals Week | Thursday, March 19, 2009 EXAM #2 9:00-11:00 am Location(s) TBA |
Lecture Quizzes #6 and #7 are "unscheduled"---they can occur at any time during the quarter.