Chapter 1 - The Earth and it's Atmosphere: Links of interest

Index of Lecture Notes

• history of meteorology
• scales of meteorological phenomena
• the atmosphere is a thin envelope around the earth
• the atmosphere is a thin envelope around the earth - numbers
• Permanent gasses
• variable gasses
• composition and generation of the early atmosphere
• introduction to the vertical structure of the atmosphere
• vertical profile of density: density defined
• vertical profile of density: graphed
• vertical profile of pressure: pressure defined
• vertical profile of pressure: sea-level pressure
• vertical profile of pressure: graphed
• vertical profile of temperature: introduction
• vertical profile of temperature: all layers
• the troposphere
• the stratosphere
• ozone and the stratosphere
• stability and the stratosphere
• the mesosphere
• the thermosphere
• vertical profile of the atmosphere by composition
• the ionosphere
• AM radio waves and the ionosphere
• weather v.s. climate
• REVIEW QUESTIONS
• CH 1 HOMEWORK:  NOTES | PROBLEMS

last updated: 07/31/06