COURSE LECTURE OUTLINE
Date LECTURE
08/22 Syllabus and Introduction
08/27 No lab
08/27 Importance
of the atmospheric boundary layer (1)
08/29 Importance of the atmospheric boundary layer (2)
09/03 Labor Day (NO CLASS)
09/05 Surface energy balance (1)
09/10 In-class
assignment I: Snow Man – The story of Lonnie Thompson and Ellen
Mosley-Thompson
09/10 Surface
energy balance (2)
09/12 Surface energy balance (3)
09/17 In-class
assignment II: Surface energy balance
09/17 Surface water balance (1)
09/19 Surface
water balance (2)
09/24 In-class assignment III:
Surface water balance
09/24 Vertical
structure of the atmospheric boundary layer (1)
09/26 Vertical structure of the atmospheric boundary layer (2)
10/01 In-class assignment IV:
Vertical structure of atmospheric boundary layer
10/01 Modeling the atmospheric boundary layer (1)
10/03 Modeling
the atmospheric boundary layer (2)
10/08 In-class assignment V:
Modeling boundary layer turbulence
10/08 Boundary
layer of shallow clouds and deep convection (ref: Bretherton et al. 2004, Zipser 1977, Barnes 1982)
10/10 Effects
of different surface types and human activities (Sign-up and instructions
for in-class presentation)
10/15 In-class assignment VI:
Boundary layer precursors for droughts
10/15 Land
surface processes in global climate models (1) (pdf
file)
10/17 Land surface processes in global climate models (2) (pdf file)
10/22 Preparation of in-class presentation
10/22 Midterm Review
10/24 MIDTERM
10/29 In-class assignment VII:
Boundary layer structure of the El Nino/Southern Oscillation
10/29 Ocean-atmosphere interaction
(1): El Nino, La Nina and Southern Oscillation (Jon
Karagiannakis)
Rasmusson and Wallace 1983/McPhaden 1999/Alexander et al. 2002
10/31 Ocean-atmosphere interaction
(2): Boundary layer of hurricanes (Andrew
Lee)
Powell et al. 2003/Black et al. 2007/Wu et al. 2005
11/05 In-class assignment VIII:
Aircraft penetration of hurricaneŐs boundary layer Houze et al. (2007)
11/05 Ocean-atmosphere interaction
(3): Ocean-atmosphere interaction and global warming (Wenkai Guo)
Ramanathan and Collins
1991/Lin 2006 /Wallace 1992
11/07 Land-atmosphere
interaction (1): Deforestation and afforestation (Claire-Louise Bode)
Foley 2005/Feddema et al. 2005/Bala 2007
11/12 VeteranŐs Day (NO CLASS)
11/14 Land-atmosphere interaction
(2): Heat island effect and heat waves (Kenny Morley)
Karl and Knight 1997/Fischer et al. 2007/Seneviratne et al. 2006
11/19 In-class assignment VIIII:
Heat island effect in U.S. big cities
11/19 Land-atmosphere interaction (3):
Vegetation feedback and droughts (Brian Shell)
Zeng et al. 1999/Hoerling 2003/Schubert et al. 2004
11/21 Thanksgiving Break (NO
CLASS)
11/26 Land-atmosphere interaction
(4): Vegetation feedback and global warming
(Patrick Rongers)
Cox et al. 2000/Melillo et al. 2002/Kirschbaun 2000
11/26 Summary: Boundary layer
processes and climate feedbacks (Term paper due)
11/28 Remote Sensing of Land
Cover Change
12/03 NO
CLASS (Final exam week)
12/05 NO FINAL EXAM