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GEOG 2013

Weather and Water

0.5 credit · Undergraduate

Introduction to climate, weather and the hydrological cycle. Physical properties of the atmosphere, radiation and energy balances, global circulation, atmospheric moisture and precipitation, weather systems and forecasting, mechanisms of anthropogenic climate change.

2025

Topics

  • Energy and Radiation laws Introduction to lab Ch. 4
  • Shortwave radiation and Lab exercise 2: Air Temperature Ch. 5
  • Humidity and condensation Lab exercise 4: Atmospheric Humidity, Ch. 7
  • Clouds and precipitation Lab exercise 4: Atmospheric Humidity, Ch. 10
  • Buoyancy and stability Lab exercise 5: Atmospheric Stability and the Ch. 8
  • Thermodynamic diagrams: Lab exercise 5: Atmospheric Stability and the Ch. 8
  • Atmospheric motion Lab exercise 6: Geostrophic Wind Ch. 11
  • Vorticity and Rossby Wave Lab exercise 7: Synoptic systems Ch. 12
  • Cyclogenesis Lab exercise 7: Synoptic systems (Cont’d) Ch. 14
  • Lab 7 is due at the end of the lab period
  • Cyclogenesis (Cont’d)

Prerequisites & course information

Prerequisite(s): GEOG 1010 or ERTH 1002 or ISCI 1001 . Lectures three hours a week, laboratory three hours a week.

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