Lecture schedule.

Week 2. Required reading: chapter 3
Mon 1/8 Radiation lecture notes
Tues 1/9 Planetary energy balance
Wed 1/10 The greenhouse effect lecture notes
Thu 1/11 Vertical mixing in the atmosphere [ASSIGNMENT 1 DUE] lecture notes
Fri 1/12 Review session; Form groups for project (TM)

 Week 3. Required reading: chapter 4, lecture notes
Mon 1/15 Martin Luther King Day (no class)
Tues 1/16 How moisture effects convection  lecture notes
Wed 1/17 The poleward transport of heat by atmospheric motions lecture notes
Thu 1/18 Global pattern of temperature and rainfall; climate zones lecture notes
Fri 1/19 Factors that influence temperature and vegetation lecture notes

 Week 4. Required reading: Chapters 5-6
Mon 1/22 Review (TM) [ASSIGNMENT 2 DUE]
Tues 1/23 MIDTERM 1
Wed 1/24 Structure of the oceans; The marine biosphere lecture notes
Thu 1/25 Wind driven ocean currents; Thermohaline circulation lecture notes
Fri 1/26 Thermohaline circulation  lecture notes

 Week 5. Required reading: Chapters 7-8
Mon 1/29 The cryosphere; plate tectonics  lecture notes
Tues 1/30 The carbon cycle lecture notes
Wed 1/31 The carbon cycle (continued)
Thu 2/1 Evolution of the atmosphere; The rise of oxygen lecture notes
Fri 2/2 Earth, 'the Goldilocks planet'

 Week 6. Required Reading: Chapters 9-11
Student Presentations Role of climate in Earth and Human History
Mon 2/5 The past 4.6 billion years; evidence of past climates
Tues 2/6 The past 100 million years
Wed 2/7 The past few million years
Thu 2/8 The past 20,000 years
Fri 2/9 The past 2,000 years

 Week 7. Required Reading: Chapter 12 and Reports to the Nation: El Niño and climate prediction.
Mon 2/12 Review of Paleoclimate (TM) [TERM PAPERS DUE]
Tues 2/13 The Milankovitch theory
Wed 2/14 Recent climate changes, volcanoes, solar variability
Thu 2/15 El Nino (N. Mantua, gust lecturer) [ASSIGNMENT 3 DUE]
Fri 2/16 El Nino

 Week 8. Required Reading: Chapter 14
Mon 2/19 President's Day (no class)
Tues 2/20 Review for Midterm 2
Wed 2/21 MIDTERM 2
Thu 2/22 The ozone hole (P. Mote, guest lecturer)
Fri 2/23 The ozone hole (continued)

 Week 9. Required Reading: Chapter 13
Mon 2/26 Human impact on the carbon cycle lecture outline 
Tues 2/27 Physics of greenhouse warming lecture outline 
Wed 2/28 Is the Earth getting warmer? lecture outline  [FINAL DRAFT OF "W" PAPERS DUE]
Thu 3/1 Impacts of greenhouse warming lecture outline 
Fri 3/2 NOVA Video Part 1 [ASSIGNMENT 4 DUE]

 Week 10.
Mon 3/5 NOVA Video Part 2
Tues 3/6 Greenhouse warming policy issues (E. Miles, guest lecturer) 
Wed 3/7 Students discussion of greenhouse warming opinion pieces [ASSIGNMENT 5 DUE]
Thu 3/8 Global warming discussion (D. Battisti, moderator)
Fri 3/9 Review for Final (TM)

 FINAL EXAM Monday 3/12/01, 8:30-10:20am