Welcome to Atmospheric Sciences 101: Weather - Summer 2012

Instructor: Bryce Harrop
Email: bryce 'at' atmos.washington.edu
Lecture: Monday-Friday 9:40-10:40 a.m. in ATG 310C
Office hours: Tue 2:30-4:00, Thurs 12:30-1:30 at ATG 402, or by appointment.
Website: http://atmos.washington.edu/~bryce/courses/atms101
Required textbook: Essentials of Meteorology by C. Donald Ahrens, 6th edition

Announcements

Daily/weekly announcements will go here

Grades are posted!

Final Exam will be on Thursday and Friday of Week 9 (Aug 16 & 17) during normal class hour (9:40-10:40a) and in normal room (ATG 310c)

8/16/2012 All homework solutions are up on the materials page. The grades are all entered into Gradebook as well. Please check these to make sure they match your records. If you are trying to calculate the non-exam portion of your grade, remember that the lowest quiz score is dropped.
8/13/12 If you want to turn in homework 8 early, I will grade it so that you can use it to study for the final. Otherwise, the due date is still Thursday.
8/9/12 Homework 8 (the final homework!) available on dropbox and class website. Due in class or electronically by start of class next Thursday (August 16; first day of Final).
8/3/12 Homework 7 available on dropbox and class website. Due in class or electronically by start of class next Friday (August 10).
7/27/12 Homework 6 available on dropbox and class website. Due in class or electronically by start of class next Friday (August 3).
7/24/12 Top Down Forecasting notes posted
7/20/12 Homework 5 available on dropbox and class website. Due in class or electronically by start of class next Friday (July 27).
7/19/12 Reminder homework 4 due and quiz 5 tomrrow
7/18/12 Class in 310c tomorrow!
7/18/12 I've put some additional details on terminal velocity up on the disccusion board for anyone who's interested.
7/17/12 Cloud in a Bottle movie
7/13/12 Homework 4 available on dropbox and class website. Due in class or electronically by start of class next Friday (July 20).
7/13/12 It has been brought to my attention that I never opened the submission area for homework 3 on dropbox. Since some of you prefer to submit electronic copies, homework 3 will be due at 5:00p today instead of at class.
7/13/12 We will have class in ATG 610 today. They are doing cleaning in 310C.
7/12/12 Reminder: quiz 4 and homework 3 due tomorrow
7/10/12 Forecast verified! It's nearly 2:00p on Tuesday afternoon and our morning cloud deck has burned off.
7/9/12 Grade book grades are up for real now. Sorry about the confusion.
7/6/12 Homework 3 available on dropbox and class website. Due in class or electronically by start of class next Friday (July 13).
7/6/12 In case you haven't visited the course materials page recently, the solutions for the first two homeworks are up. Also, the grades are all up-to-date on GradeBook.
7/5/12 Class today as usual. Homework 2 due tomorrow. Quiz 3 tomorrow.
7/4/12 No Class Today
7/3/12 No class tomorrow (Wednesday) on account of the holiday. See you Thursday.
6/29/12 Homework 2 available on dropbox and class website. Due in class or electronically by start of class next Friday (July 6).
6/26/12 Conduction and convection: The Movie!
6/26/12 Stefan-Boltzmann graph can be found under "course materials" and here
6/22/12 Homework 1 available on dropbox and class website. Due in class or electronically by start of class next Friday (June 29).
6/21/12 Quiz 1 tomorrow
6/21/12 Satellite loop video uploaded under "Schedule"
6/21/12 For more can-crushing entertainment check out this great video
6/20/12 Class tomorrow will be in ATG 610. Just found out that 310 is getting its floor waxed
6/19/12 Discussion board and grade book now open. Check out the links on the right.
6/18/12 Class begins

overview

ATMS 101 Weather, as the course title suggests, is all about the weather. The class focuses on the weather as a system and learning how the various parts of that system work together to produce the weather we all know and love. Understanding will be stressed over simple memorization. Those students who hope to complete this challenge will need to be able to think critically, analyze maps, and interpret data.

In this course, you will learn:

  • how we observe the weather
  • the simple physics of the atmosphere (pressure, temperature, and so on)
  • how to pair what we see (weather obsrvations) with what we know (physics) to understand the weather
  • how to forecast (moving from today's weather to tomorrow's)
  • how to watch a forecast on tv or online or listen to one on the radio and understand what's going on


UW ATMS Webcam (60s refresh)
Earth Observatory Image of the Day


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