Geological Sciences/Geography 201: Water, Climate, and Humankind

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Notes from Fall 1996

Monday	Wednesday	Friday
		6 Sept maps
9 Sept solar system	11 Sept sun-earth relationships, seasons	13 Sept sun's energy, the atmosphere
16 Sept atmosphere, cont.	18 Sept radiation budget	20 Sept radiation budget, cont.
23 Sept colors in the sky, ozone depletion	25 Sept ozone, cont., controls on temperature	27 Sept temperature, cont., Greenhouse effect
30 Sept Greenhouse, cont., aerosols, atmospheric stability	2 Oct wind and atmospheric circulation	Exam 1
7 Oct wind and atmospheric circulation, cont.	9 Oct oceanic and atmospheric circulation	11 Oct ocean basins, water, humidity, more on Hadley, air masses
14 Oct weather, air masses, causes of precipitation, atmospheric lifting mechanisms, clouds	16 Oct atmospheric lifting, cont., midlatitude cyclones, hurricanes	(18 Oct)
21 Oct water balancing	(23 Oct)	25 Oct climate on a hypothetical supercontinent, Koppen climate classification
28 Oct Koppen, cont.	(30 Oct)	1 Nov Koppen, cont.
4 Nov soils	6 Nov soils, cont.	8 Nov soils, cont., biomes
11 Nov glaciers/glaciation	13 Nov glaciers, cont.	(15 Nov)
18 Nov climate and agriculture	Exam 2	22 Nov glaciers, cont.
25 Nov causes of ice ages	27 Nov groundwater	Thanksgiving
2 Dec el nino/southern oscillation, groundwater, cont.	(4 Dec)	6 Dec humans and the environment
9 Dec humans and the environment, cont.

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