gutowski@iastate.edu 294-5632 [tel]
3021 Agronomy 294-2619 [fax]
My page at the Ge-At Department faculty site.
office hours:
Monday 2-3 pm
Wednesday 10-11 am
Choice 1 is preferable because faculty teaching other courses will also use email to communicate with you. They, too, will have your iastate.edu address, through AccessPlus, but not likely your other email address. Setting up automatic forwarding saves you from having to repeat these steps down the road.
The course outline below indicates how much material is part of any given class.
NOTE: If we do not finish a derivation during class, students will be responsible for completing it on their own. (Nearly all derivations are in the textbook.)
Most, if not all standard problem sets will be done by teams of students
assigned to problem-set groups by me.
Problem set groups for Spring 2003: (a) web page (b) pdf file
Please follow these procedures for doing problem sets:
Your problem set group likely will include people with whom you do not ordinarily work. It is important that you work out means of working together. When you enter the working world, you will not have much choice of who your colleagues are, but you will be expected to perform in a professional manner with whoever is part of your organization.
A schedule of Standard Problem Sets will be updated as the semester evolves.
These will be problems that I want you to work on with your groups in advance of classes where the material is covered. There are two motivations for these sets:
A schedule of Class Review Problem Sets will be updated as the semester evolves.
NOTE! Class Review problem set results will be handed in at the end of the next class after the one in which they are covered.
The labs will often entail accessing meteorology computers . The labs have instructions in a lab list on the Web.
Labs are due one week after assigned, unless stated otherwise.
3 Tests 60% Computer/math labs, class participation 20% Problem sets 20%The course grade is determined by how each student performs. This is done in part by assessing how people do with respect to each other and how the class as a whole has done. This gives a starting point for reviewing what each student has demonstrated with regard to his/her grasp of the material. The total score from tests, labs, etc. is NOT judged on a scale of below 60 = F, 60 - 69 = D, etc.
Past tests are available for reviewing:
Test 3 for Spring 2003 will be during the final exam period, 7:30-9:30 am, Monday, 5 May 2003, in our regular classroom (105 Kildee).
Class images are available for viewing.
Lecture Text Key Concept(s)
Read 1.1 L.1 1.2/1.3 Composition of atmosphere & hydrosphere Water vapor versus height Read 1.4 L.2 1.5/1.6/1.7 Zonal average Global temperature and wind distributions
L.3 2.1 Ideal gas L.4 2.2 Hydrostatic equation L.5 2.3 Conservation of Energy: First Law of Thermodynamics Read 2.4 L.6 2.5 Potential temperature Read 2.5.4 L.7 2.6 Mixing ratio Saturation mixing ratio L.8 2.6 (continued) Read 2.6.4, 2.6.5,2.6.6 L.9 2.7 Static stability
L.10 3.1 - 3.2.1 500 mb heights
500 mb wind speed/direction
L.11 3.2.2-3.3 Evolution of storm systems
L.12 3.4-3.5 Vertical structure of the temperature field
Special: Temperature sounding made by Prof. Gutowski.
L.13 4.1 Aerosols: distribution and climatic effects L.14 4.2 Nucleation of water vapor Role of CCN
TEST: Chapters 1 - 3
Read 4.3 L.15 4.4 Mechanisms of droplet growth
Chapter 5
L.16 5.1 Relationship of cloud characteristics to local circulations L.17 5.2 Convective & "stable" precipitation
Chapter 6
Read 6.1 L. 18 6.2/6.3.1 Molecular absorption/emission of radiation L.19 6.4 Black-body radiation L.20 6.5 Emissivity L.21 6.6 Optical depth L.22 6.8/6.9 Global radiative energy balance
Chapter 7
L.23 7.1 Balance of sources and sinks of energy L.24 7.3/7.4 Roles of radiative, sensible heat and latent heat fluxes L.25 7.5 Time scales of variability
Chapter 8
Read Introduction L.26 8.1 Relationship between wind components and coordinate systems Pressure as a coordinate L.27 8.2 Rotating coordinates produces apparent forces Coriolis force L.28 8.3 Pressure force from pressure gradient
TEST: Chapters 4-6
L.29 8.4 Newton's Second Law - Conservation of momentum (in the horizontal) L.30 8.4 (continued) L.31 8.5, 8.6 (part) Newton's Second Law - Conservation of momentum (in the vertical) L.32 8.7 First Law of Thermodynamics - Conservation of thermodynamic energy L.33 8.8 Continuity Equation - Conservation of mass L.34 8.9 Primitive Equations
Chapter 9
L.35 9.1/9.2 Available potential energy L.36 9.3 Maintenance of geostrophic balance L.37 9.4 Stationary circulation patterns L.38 9.5 Energy conversion in baroclinic waves L.39 9.7/9.8/9.9 Cycling of conserved quantities
TEST: Chapters 7 - 9 (during exam period)
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