AOS 101 Discussion



Class
AOS 101: Introduction to Weather and Climate
  Professor: Dr. Steve Ackerman
    E-mail: saackerm@wisc.edu
  Class times: Tuesday/Thursday 11:00 - 12:15 p.m.
    Location:

Discussion
  Teaching Assistant: Katie Holman
    E-mail: kdholman@wisc.edu
  Meeting time: Monday 1:10 - 2:15 p.m.
    Location: AOS Bldg, Room 1411
  Office hours: Wednesday 1:00-2:15 p.m.*
    Location: AOS Bldg, Room 1121
    *or by appointment

Important Information
  *Course Syllabus*

Discussion Timeline

WEEK TOPIC ASSIGNMENT DUE
Week One (SEP 13) Introductions Homework 1: Excel Intro
Homework 1: Data
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Week Two (SEP 20) Radiation Homework 2: Data HW1
Week Three (SEP 27) Temperature Part I Homework 3 Document
 FIG 1-ANNUAL (Source: WICCI)
 FIG 2-FALL (Source: WICCI)
 Figure 3 - valid 9/20/2010 at 2:00 pm
 Figure 4 (Source: Wikipedia)
HW2
Week Four (OCT 4) Temperature Part II HW4:Assignment
HW4:Data
HW3
Week Five (OCT 11) Water Vapor HW5: Water Vapor
Figure 1: Annual Avg Precip 1961-1990
HW4
Week Six (OCT 18) Longwave Radiation HW6: Precip, Evap, Pressure Doc
Figure 1: Precip and Evap (Marshall & Plumb, 2008)
Figure 2: Sea-surface Salinity (Marshall & Plumb,2008)
Figure 3: Annual Average SLP
HW5
Week Seven (OCT 25) Tank Lab Demo HW7: Write-up HW6
Week Eight (NOV 1) El Nino HW8: Correlations
El Nino Data Set
Convection Write-up
Week Nine (NOV 8) Tank Lab Demo HW9: Write-up HW8
Week Ten (NOV 15) Atmospheric Stability HW10: Atmospheric Stability Assignment
Fig 1: Spring Soil Moisture
Fig 2: Summer Soil Moisture
Tank-Lab Questions
Week Eleven (NOV 22*) The Jet Stream HW11: The Vertical Atmosphere
Figure 1: 850 hPa Temperature
Figure 2: Zonal Wind Composite
HW10
Week Twelve (NOV 29) Ocean Circulation HW12: Assignment
Figure 1: SLP
Figure 2: Ocean Currents
Figure 3: Annual Precipitation Distributions
Figure 4: July Sea-Surface Temperatures
Figure 5: January Sea-Surface Temperatures
HW11
Week Thirteen (DEC 6) Last Homework Assignment Connecting Maps
Figure 1: Temperature
Figure 2: Lower RH
Figure 3: Surface Variables
HW12
Week Fourteen (DEC 13) Lake Mendota Part II Evaluations HW13