MPO 531, Spring 2008

Syllabus

2. Jan. 17 - Observations of fair-weather Cumulus
3. Jan. 22 - Prospero, 1999 + RY 6, Formation of CLoud Droplets
4. Jan. 24 - RY 7, Condensational Droplet Growth
5. Jan. 29 - RY 8, Rain Initiation in Warm Clouds
6. Jan. 31 - Stevens, 2007: On the growth of non-raining Cumulus
7. Feb. 5 - Stevens, 2007: On the growth of non-raining Cumulus
8. Feb. 7 - RY 9: Formation and Collection of Ice Crystals
9. Feb. 12 - RY 10: Rain and Snow
10. Feb. 14 - STORMFURY
11. Feb. 19 - Xue Zheng: Stevens & Seifert, Sensitivity of Cu simulations to microphysical rep.
12. Feb. 21 - Black and Hallett: Hurricane Microphysics and Electrification
13. Feb. 26 - BOB BLACK GUEST LECTURE **10:30-11:30***note time ! Hurricane Microphysics
14. Feb. 28 - Shaunna Donaher: Zhang et al., Gamma raindrop size distributions
15. Mar. 4 - aerosol indirect effect ala IPCC
16. Mar. 6 - hw4 discussion

March 10-14 SPRING BREAK

17. Mar. 18 - no class, Mar. 19 STEVENS MPO SEMINAR
18. Mar. 20 - solar and terrestrial spectrum, blackbody radiation
19. Mar. 25 - introduction to the radiative transfer equation (RTE)
20. Mar. 27 - passive microwave RT (handout)
21. April 1 - scattering descriptions (Petty ch 11)
22. April 3 - the physics of scattering (Petty ch 12)
23. April 8 - Mie scattering: optical effects
24. April 10 - radiative transfer and radar
25. April 15 - two-stream RTE solution
26. April 17 - RT and microphysics: multi-wavelength melting layer obs. Sassen et al 2005
27. April 22 - Shaunna Donaher:AERONET: An introductory lesson and class assignment
28. April 24 - Xue Zheng: Impact of GCCN on stratocumulus, Feingold et al. 1999

a few of the homeworks
HW2
HW4