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ATM S 501, Fall Quarter 2004
Fundamentals of Physics and Chemistry of the Atmosphere

Notes

Each  week's class notes will be posted below as PowerPoint and PDF files.
You can open PDF files with the free software Adobe Acrobat Reader.


(Note that the PowerPoint files were created on an apple machine so they might not necessarily work under windows.)

Chapter 1
(Introduction to the Atmosphere)



Notes (from powerpoint files used in class)
PDF
powerpoint 
Text and Figures from Wallace & Hobbs (modified on 12/1/04)
PDF

Chapter 2
(The Earth System)

 
 
Notes
PDF
powerpoint
Text and Figures (modified on 12/01/04)
PDF

Chapter 3
(Atmospheric Thermodynamics)



Text and Figures (page 82 modified on 10/28/04)
PDF
 
Chapter 4
(Radiative Transfer)



Text and Figures (modified on 12/01/04)
PDF

Notes (modified on 10/28/03)
PDF
powerpoint 
Chapter 5
(Atmospheric Chemistry)



Text and Figures (modified 8/25/04)
PDF

Chapter 6
(Cloud Microphysics)


Text and Figures (modified on 9/3/04)
PDF

Chapter 7
(Boundary Layer Processes)



Text and Figures (modified on 8/25/04) PDF

Chapter 8
(Atmospheric Dynamics)



Text and Figures (modified on 8/26/04)
PDF

Notes/Figures
PDF
ppt
Notes from class review
PDF

Chapter 9
(Weather Systems)


Text and Figures (modified 8/30/04, Incomplete: not yet suitable for use in courses)
PDF

Chapter 10
(Climate Dynamics)


Text and Figures (modified on 12/02/04)
PDF

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 Last Updated:
12/02/2004

Contact the instructors at: wallace@atmos.washington.edu or phobbs@atmos.washington.edu