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	---
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