• Concept Map on Atmospheric Dynamics on Large Scales (completed map, solution to Quiz #4)

• Thought Questions: The Geostrophic Wind and Real Winds Aloft at Midlatitudes (PDF file)
• Quiz #4 (take-home): Thought Questions: Concept Map on Atmospheric Dynamics on Large Scales
  • Partially blank concept map (for Thought Questions: A Concept Map on Atmospheric Dynamics on Large Scales)

• Some Guidelines for Estimating the Response of An Object's Position and Motion to the Sum of the Forces Acting on the Object
• Thought Questions: How Forces Work Aloft (PDF file)

• Final Writing Assignment: "Troughs and Ridges (the 'Wobbles') in the Jet Stream Pattern"
  • Figure 1, Figure 2, Figure 3
• Reading Questions #1b: Chapter 1, "Introduction to Meteorological Inquiry: A First Look at Weather Systems" (pp. 20-29)
  (recommended for the Final Writing Assignment)

• Summary of Important Points about the Combined Effects of Two or More Forces Acting on Air (PDF file)

• Pre-class Exercise #3 (preview version): Forces in the Atmosphere and Ocean
• Newton's Second Law and the Hydrostatic Relation (PDF file)
• Thought Questions: Temperature and Pressure in Air Columns
• Prospectus for Quiz #3

• Thought Questions: Stability
• Reading Assignment #6: Chapter 6: "Precipitation" (pp. 152-181)
• Reading Assignment #7a: Chapter 7, "Structure of Large Mid-Latitude Weather Systems" (pp. 184-199)
• Pressure in the Atmosphere (and Oceans)
• Problem #3: Atmospheric Pressure in (Imaginary) Air Columns

• Thought Questions: Concept Map on Creating Instability
  • List of Concepts for Concept Map on Creating Instability
  • Partly blank concept map
• Pre-class Exercise #2 (preview version): Modifying Atmospheric Stability

10/25
(Mon)

10/20
(Wed)