Schedule#
Warning
Last updated: 2025-04-30, valid and finalized for all remaining classes.
Warning
Please complete the assigned reading for a given day before that day’s class.
Textbook sections refer to the required Tziperman book.
Date |
Class number |
Topic |
Textbook sections |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
2/5 |
1 |
Course overview |
Preface and Ch. 1 |
Read the syllabus |
2/12 |
n/a |
NO CLASS |
(CCNY closed) |
|
2/19 |
2 |
Overview; The Greenhouse Effect |
Ch. 1 and 2 |
HW1 posted on Brightspace; due Tuesday 2/25 |
2/26 |
3 |
Temperature, part 1 |
Ch. 2.2.4-2.2.6; Ch. 3 |
HW1 due Tuesday 2/25 |
3/5 |
4 |
Temperature, part 2 |
Ch. 3 |
HW2 due Tuesday 3/4 |
Thursday 3/6 |
5 |
Clouds I |
Ch. 7 |
|
3/12 |
6 |
Clouds II; other key sources of uncertainty in temperature projections |
Ch. 7; Hawkins and Sutton 2009 |
|
3/19 |
7 |
Sea level rise; review for midterm |
Ch. 4 |
2nd half of class will be review for midterm |
3/26 |
8 |
MIDTERM |
Ch. 1-4; 7 |
in-person only; pencil-and-paper only |
4/2 |
9 |
Arctic Sea Ice part 1 |
Ch. 9 |
|
4/9 |
10 |
Arctic Sea Ice part 2 |
Ch. 9 |
|
4/16 |
n/a |
NO CLASS |
(Spring Recess) |
|
4/23 |
11 |
Hurricanes |
Ch. 8 |
|
4/30 |
12 |
Atmospheric circulation; rotating tank demonstrations |
(mostly Prof’s lecture slides) |
demonstrations will take place in MR 729 |
5/7 |
13 |
Droughts and Precipitation |
Ch. 12 (but mostly Prof’s lecture slides) |
|
5/14 |
14 |
B8800 final presentations; final review |
Ch. 1-4; 7-9; 12 |
1st half will be presentations; 2nd half the final review |
5/18 11:59pm |
n/a |
B8800 FINAL PROJECT DUE |
||
5/21 1-3:15pm |
n/a |
FINAL EXAM |