Textbook:
Wallace and Hobbs: Atmospheric Science: An Introductory
Survey (2nd edition)
Academic Press (Elsevier)
Companion website for
Textbook Contains answers to the exercises at the end of the
chapters in the book, list of errata, list of useful URL’s,
thermodynamic charts, and complete solutions for a subset of the
exercises posed at the end of the chapters.
http://www.elsevierdirect.com/companion.jsp?ISBN=9780127329512
| Week |
Lecture Topics |
Suggested Exercises, preliminary (to be
updated regularly) |
Reading from WH |
| 1 9/24-9/26 W-F lectures |
Introduction |
1.10-1.18, 1.20 FYIs: In problem 1.18, the mass of water vapor in the atmosphere is about 4X too high according to Trenberth and Smith (2004). In problem 1.20, the hint uses hydrostatic balance, so WH Fig 3.1 may be helpful) |
Ch 1 (see Wallace's Errata) |
| 2 9/29-10/3 M-F lectures F: Quiz 1 |
The Earth System |
2.10, 2.14, 2.15a, 2.16 (CO2 only), 2.18-2.21 | Ch 2 |
| 3 10/6-10/10 M, Th F lectures Tu, W guest lectures |
Thermodynamics 1 |
3.19-3.24, 3.26-3.31 (there is an error in eq 3.106 where T should be Gamma), 3.32, 33, 36, 37, 39 | Ch 3.1-3.5 |
| 4 10/13-10/17 M, Th, F lectures x Tu no class x W Quiz 2 |
Thermodynamics 2 |
3.41, 43, 45, 47, 48, 53a, 53b, 58-3.62; skew T - ln p chart |
Ch 3.6 to end 8.3.1 |
| 5 10/20-10/24 M-Th F |
Thermodynamics 3 |
Problems for practice (goto canvas Oct 20). Extra reading (please go to canvas site for each day of the week) : Monday - Hurricane paper by Kerry Emanuel Be prepared to discuss. Tuesday - My notes introducing the Gibbs and Helmholtz free energies and phase diagrams of water Wednesday - Excellent notes about thermodynamics from someone at ETH, read 2.4 through the end of 2.4.2 for Wednesday. The whole document is an excellent summary of thermodynamics. Thursday - read about cape from WH 8.3.1 Friday - Cecilia is working on notes about chemical potentials |
see details to the left |
| 6 10/27-10/31 M lecture x Tu Quiz 3 x W-F guest lectures |
Chemistry |
5.13, 14, 15, 18, 19, 21 Exercises on aerosols with solutions Chemistry problems from Prof Wallace (hint for 1a, show that the coefficient of [O*] in the equation for d[O*]/dt is large compared to k1, which means any small variation in the equilibrium value of [O*] is quickly damped away. Also think of this as if you are computing a lifetime, which is very short. See WH eq 5.98 if necessary) |
Ch 5.1-5.5 Roughly: 5.4 on Monday, 5.1 & 5.2 on Wednesday, 5.3 Thursday, & 5.5 Friday |
| 7 11/3-11/7 M-W project Th-F guest lectures Cecilia gone all week |
Class Project and Radiative Transfer
|
Class Project on CO2 Capture from Ambient Air (Mon-Wed) papers to read are loaded on Canvas 501 site under calendar for 11/3 By coincidence, the seminar in ATG 310C on 11/3 at 3:30 is "Carbon Capture & Sequestration as a Climate Protective Measure?" 4.17-23, 26, 27, 29, 30, 31, 33 (for working on 4.19 feel free to use the following matlab scripts sun.m and plotsun.m. Get both and run plotsun.m). I disagree with some of the published answers. I find 4.20 should be 4.5x10^(-10), 4.21a should be 18 deg C, and 4.27 should be about 7 W/m2. Let me know if you think differently. |
Read papers about CO2 capture (from Canvas) and WH Ch 4 through section 4.3.3 |
| 8 11/10-11/14 M Presentation about CO2 Tue Veteran's Day W-F |
Radiative Transfer |
4.35, 30-41, 43, 45-49, 52, 56 Look at these as a last resort only! page1, 2, 3, 4 1D model to explore |
Ch 4 to end (or maybe a little less if we slow down) |
| 9 11/17-11/21 M Quiz 4 Tu-F |
Cloud Microphysics |
6.9, 6.10, 6.11, 6.13, 6.15, 6.17, 6.26 6.16, 6.18, 6.26, 6.29, 6.31 |
Ch 6.1-6.5 |
| 10 11/24-11/26 M-W (Thanksgiving Week) |
Boundary Layer |
9.7, 9.11 (for Reynold's averaging
practice), 9.25 |
Ch 9.1-9.3 (skip 9.1.5, 9.1.6) |
| 11 12/1-12/5 M-Th F Quiz 5 |
Boundary Layer and Climate |
10.7, 10.13, 10.16a, 10.17c,d, 10.18, 10.19, 10.20, 10.23,
Optional 10.24, 10.25, 10.26 |
Ch 9.4, 10.1,10.2.2c,d, 10.2.3, 10.3 (or p 425-431 and 437-450) |