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Instructor: Claudia Pasquero 3224 Croul Hall claudia.pasquero@uci.edu Office hours: by appointment |
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Lectures:
TTh 11:00-12:20 pm, 1103 Croul Hall, First meeting: November 1st, 2007.
Description:
Core graduate course. Many important processes which drive the physical climate system are introduced. Those include: Hydrostatics, Thermodynamics, Buoyancy and Convection, Radiance, Absorption, Scattering, Emission, Microphysics of clouds, Feedbacks.
Grades: Homework (40%), Lecture participation (10%), Final exam (50%)
Textbook: J. Wallace and P. Hobbs,
Atmospheric Science,
Academic Press (2006).
Other resources:
C.F. Bohren and B.A. Albrecht, Atmospheric Thermodynamics, Oxford University Press (1998).
D.L. Hartmann, Global Physical Climatology, Academic Press (1994).
Open University Team, Seawater, Butterworth-Heinemann (1995).
K.N. Liou, An introduction to atmospheric radiation, Academic Press (2002).
R.P. Feynman, Lectures on Physics, Addison Wesley Longman (1970).