MPO 551, Fall 2005




When this class took place, the new edition of the course textbook "Atmospheric Science: An Introductory Survey" by John Wallace and Peter Hobbs was not yet available. Prof. Wallace generously allowed us to use the page proofs for the course. Since then the book has become publicly available ($60 through Amazon) and I no longer make the original page proofs available.

  • Syllabus
  • Class lectures, as powerpoints or pdfs
    Aug. 24 (WH Ch.1).ppt
    Aug. 29 oceans, hydrological cycle, cryosphere (WH Ch. 2) [.ppt] [.pdf]
    Aug. 31& Sept. 7 carbon cycle, earth history (WH Ch. 2) [.ppt] [.pdf]
    Sept. 7 Milankovitch Cycle (Renee) [.ppt]
    Sept. 14 Thermodynamics: Ophelia moisture [.ppt][.pdf]
    Sept. 21 Thermodynamics: sounding stability analyis + [.ppt][.pdf]
    Sept. 26 Riehl & Augstein trade winds (Yumin) [.ppt][.pdf]
    Sept. 28 Radiation, 1 [.ppt][.pdf]
    Oct. 3 Radiation, 2 [.ppt][.pdf]
    Oct. 5 Radiation, 3 [.ppt][.pdf]
    Oct. 12 Radiation & Climate [.ppt][.pdf]
    Oct. 17 Chapter 1-4 overview [.ppt][.pdf]
    Nov. 2 cloud microphysics 1 [.doc]
    Nov. 9 Production of Ice in Tropospheric Clouds (Alex) [.ppt]
    Nov. 9 cloud microphsics 3 [.ppt][.pdf]
    Nov. 11 Dynamics 1 [.ppt][.pdf]
    Nov. 16 Hurricane intensity changes over the last 100 years (Drew; project presentation) [.ppt]
    Nov. 21 1982 El Nino Observations (Mehmet) [.ppt]
    Nov. 21 A (Cane&Zebiak) Model El Nino-Southern Oscillation (Drew) [.ppt]
    Nov. 23 Sea Level Pressure Gradients and Convergence (Patrick) [.ppt]
    Nov. 28 Horizonal Convective Rolls (Dan) [.ppt]
    Nov. 28 Air-Sea Momentum Exchange (Da-hai) [.ppt]