Introduction to Atmospheric Sciences

Class Resources

Project Description

WEEK 1: Introduction

Slides for Week 1
Notes on contour mapping (from Stull, Meteorology for Scientists and Engineers)

WEEK 2: Atmospheric Composition and Chemistry

Slides for Week 2
Ozone depletion slides
Homework for Weeks 1/2 + Solution to Homework Q4
Week 1/2 Quiz Solutions

WEEK 3: Radiation and Earth's Radiation Budget

Slides for Week 3
Notes on difference between flux and intensity (from Petty, A First Course in Atmospheric Radiation)
Homework for Week 3 + Solutions
Week 3 Quiz Solutions

WEEK 4/5/6: Hydrostatics and Thermodynamics

Slides for Week 4
Homework for Week 4 + Solutions

Homework for Week 5/6 + Solutions

Midterm Exam

Solutions

WEEK 6/7: Clouds and Thunderstorms

University of Illinois Cloud Guide

Bob Houze's Cloud Atlas
National Weather Service Cloud Guide

Slides for Week 6

Cloud Quiz solutions

WEEK 8/9: Atmospheric Dynamics

How do we understand the Coriolis force? [Article from the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society]

Homework for Week 8 + Solutions

Pages from Stull Meteorology for Scientists and Engineers on Coriolis force

Pages from Houghton's The Physics of Atmospheres on Coriolis force

Dynamics Quiz solutions

WEEK 10: Weather Systems

Slides for Week 10

W+H Chapter 8 Figures