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Course Announcement
Fall 2008, 10:00-11:20am, Mondays and Wednesdays, 207 Chapman (CRN 12249)
Instructor: Patrick J. Bartlein,
154 Condon Hall, x6-4967,
bartlein@uoregon.edu
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Text: Smith, J. (2006) The Facts
on File Dictionary of Weather and Climate, New York, Infobase
Publishing, 262 p. (paperback, if available), plus .pdf readings on line. |
Prerequisites: Geog 141, or consent of instructor.
Course web
page:
http://blackboard.uoregon.edu/
Weather and
climate page:
http://geography.uoregon.edu/weather/
Supplemental materials page:
http://geography.uoregon.edu/courses/geog321/
Grading: 100 pts. total. Two
examinations (30 pts each), two quizzes before the first exam (4 pts
each), plus completion of eight exercises that involve the analysis of
information from the Internet that illustrates the day-to-day and
seasonal variations of weather and climate (4 pts each, 32 pts total for
the exercises).
Lecture
topics
- Introduction—the climate system
- Composition and structure of the atmosphere
- Solar radiation
- Energy balance of the earth and atmosphere
- Atmospheric moisture
- Adiabatic processes, clouds and precipitation
- Atmospheric motion
- General circulation of the atmosphere
- Airmasses and fronts, Interannual climate variations
- Upper-level flow and surface-weather features
- Midlatitude cyclones and severe weather
- Tropical storms and hurricanes
- Air pollution and heat islands
- Climate history
- Future climates
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