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Atmospheric Sciences 101: Weather
Summer 2006

Quiz Section

Quiz sections will be held on Thursday mornings, except for the week of the midterm when it will be held on Friday, 28 July. The quiz section will usually consist of concept demonstrations and a discussion period. Graded homework assignments will be returned and the solutions will be outlined. Solutions will not be posted on the course web-page, so attendence is highly recommended. A short quiz will take place in the latter of the quiz section. There will be no quiz during the first week of class, the last week of class, nor the week of the midterm.

Topics for the quiz section demonstrations & discussions:

23 June 2006:   Heat Transfer & "The Can Crusher"

29 June 2006:   Weather Forecasting

6 July 2006:   "Cloud in a Bottle"

13 July 2006:   Pseudoadiabatic Charts (I)

20 July 2006:   Pseudoadiabatic Charts (II)

28 July 2005*:   Drawing Pressure Contours

3 August 2005:   No specific demonstration planned.

10 August 2005:   Drawing Temperature Contours & Fronts