Phys1063-
Physics of Weather, Fall 2007
All class documents will be made available to you
on this page.
As indicated in the online calendar on the course
page, some class periods are reserved for experimental work. These will take place
either outside or in the physics lab Sci4550. Details will be announced. Each
experiment will be accompanied by a short lab report for each student. Each lab
report (4 will be given) is worth 40 points. Respective documents will also
appear here.
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Monsoons
and topography (PPT)
Monday, December 10, 2007
Global circulation
PowerPoint
Wednesday, December 05, 2007
Wind
and force balances in Action (today’s PowerPoint)
Monday, December 03, 2007
PowerPoint on geostrophic,
Gradient and Guldberg-Mohn winds
Weather data November 30 -
December 3
Friday, November 30, 2007
Keywords and review
questions on PGF, CF, CENTF
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Links
to various sources of wind information
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Wednesday, November 21, 2007
Worksheet on forces and
momentum
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
Last
Friday we skimped over diffraction as an atmospheric optical phenomenon. Just
for that, the sky put up a show of iridescent clouds last Friday at sunset
time.
Here are some pictures of
those clouds.
Monday, November 19, 2007
Big
pictures: picture 1, picture 2, picture 3
Link
to manufacturer of AWOS: http://www.allweatherinc.com/aviation/awos_dom.html
Friday, November 16, 2007
Optical
Effects in the atmosphere
Keywords and review questions on
radar and optical phenomena
Thursday, November 15, 2007
Field
trip handout for the trip to KMOX AWOS
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Keywords and review
questions regarding weather observation
Monday, November 12, 2007
Electromagnetic
waves and clouds
Friday, November 09, 2007
Graupel today
Keywords
and review questions for chapter 4 - water in the atmosphere
Wednesday, November 07, 2007
Color
illustration for Skew-T graphs from Monday
Monday, November 05, 2007
Cloud Formation - SkewT
graphs
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
possible answer for
Exp 4 - psychrometer
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Cloud Classification:
complete tables with picture exercise (contains the colored pictures)
Friday, October 26, 2007
Stability and cloud forms
(large file)
Wednesday, October 24
Questions about
humidity
boiling beads
(78MB), boiling
sugar (72 MB), boiling
sand (440 MB)
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
Experiment 4: Psychrometer
- Class handout
Monday, October 15, 2007
Saturation curve (C Thomson Learning)
Friday, October 12, 2007
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Raw data for campus
temperature measurements
My take on the results,
spreadsheet with
graphics
Monday, October 08, 2007
Link
to Sounding data (SkewT graph), environmental lapse rates:
http://www.spc.noaa.gov/exper/soundings/
http://weather.uwyo.edu/upperair/sounding.html
description of elements in SkewT
graph
http://www.theweatherprediction.com/thermo/skewt/
Worksheet on dry
adiabatic lapse rate
Plot of dry adiabatic lapse rates
for various temperatures (spreadsheet)
PowerPoint
on temperature cycles and averages (last Friday)
Experiment 3:
Greenhouse Gases - possible answers
Thursday, October 04, 2007
Variability
of campus temperatures – description
and datasheets for groups
Keywords and review questions for
Wednesday 10-3-07
Wednesday, October 03, 2007
PowerPoint on global
energy budget
Handout on global
energy budget (clean)
Handout on global energy budget
(filled in)
Monday, October 01, 2007
Solar Bag experiment : all pictures
and a time-lapse movie
Friday, September 28, 2007
Exp3-Data and graphs Excel
spreadsheet
FYI:
This graph was
taken earlier this year, with a different preparation. Makes me wonder why the
humid-air results are so different. I’d call our results inconclusive.
Just
for fun: a weak warm front with a turbulent backedge passed through on
Wednesday afternoon, bringing in that nice, blue, dry, high-pressure air. It
also gave some really spectacular sights, all toward ENE-ESE, 5-6 pm:
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Earth's Orbit- PowerPoint
Exp3 - Albedo and
Greenhouse gases handout will be available at class time Friday
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Monday, September 24, 2007
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
PowerPoint with review questions and
Blackbody radiation
Experiment 2: specific and latent
heat – example lab report (What
to do if you can see only the first page of the multiple-page tiff file)
Monday, September 17, 2007
Power,
heat and heat transport
Lovely time lapse movies of weather, frequently
updated
Friday, September 14, 2007
Latent
and specific heat: Excel Data file with
the graph and measurement results
Melting
ice cubes on metal and paper plate (137 MB)
Keyword
list and review questions
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
PowerPoint on
force, work and energy
Keyword
list and review questions
Preparation
for Friday’s experiment:
lab handout (paper prints will be available)
Monday, September 10, 2007
Ideal-gas
examples, PowerPoint
Experiment 1: Ideal Gas – example lab
report and grading information (What
to do if you can see only the first page of the multiple-page tiff file)
Friday, September 07, 2007
PowerPoint on pressure
and altitude
Keyword list and review questions for today's class
A quick home
experiment (bring results on Monday )
Wednesday, September 05, 2007
Reference Sheet for
Temperature Scales
3 transparencies for the ideal-gas law
Tuesday, September 04, 2007
Lab
Worksheet for experiment on
ideal-gas law
Friday, August 31, 2007
solid Argon, liquid Argon, Argon gas (Computer simulations using
a Lennard-Jones system with periodic boundary conditions,
Phys3003-Computersimulatons of Materials Spring 2005)
Composition of atmosphere
(PowerPoint)
Some support for your
self-assessment
Thursday, August 30, 2007
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Petridishes with food color (40MB)
Cumulus humilis over Oaklake SD (21
MB)
Just
for fun: Today’s morning fog lifting
off between 8:39 am and 855 am, seen from roof of science building (12 MB)
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
Here
is the syllabus for the
class and a list of
words you should be familiar with after the first day of class.
Last
modified: 12/12/2007
Maintained
by Sylke Boyd