MODULES

WEEK 1: Introductory Stuff W1-1: Basic Assumptions about the Atmosphere W1-2: The Ideal Gas Law W1-3: Hydrostatic Equilibrium W1-4: The DRY Adiabatic Lapse Rate W1-5: Betz's Turbine Law Alternate Derivation	WEEK 2: Equilibrium Temperatures, Greenhouse Effect, Instability Conditions W2-1: Stability and Buoyancy W2-2: Planet Equilibrium Temperature W2-3: "Greenhouse" Effect W2-4: The Saturated Adiabatic Lapse Rate I W2-5: The Saturated Adiabatic Lapse Rate II
WEEK 3: Water Vapor; Geostrophic Wind; Horizontal Transport W3-1: Clausius-Claperyon Equation W3-2: Does the Coriolis Force Matter? W3-3: Scaling Cyclone Evolution W3-4: Horizontal and Vertical Transport 500 MB Map Resources Good Primer to the 500 mb map 500 mb loops	WEEK 4: Thermal Wind; Radiative Stuff; Hadley and Rossby Circulation W4-1: The Thermal Wind (Vertical Shear) W4-2: Radiative Equilbrium: Atmospheric Gases W4-3: Hadley Circulation W4-4: Vorticity W4-5: Rossby Waves This YouTube is Very Informative Warm Arctic/Cold Continent Emerging Model
WEEK 5: Rain in Warm and Cold Clouds W5-1: Rain in Warm Clouds I W5-2: Rain in Warm Clouds II W5-3: Gibbs Free Energy and Droplet Growth W5-4: Ice Nucleation in Cold Clouds	WEEK 6: Thunderstorms, Tornadoes and Other Storms W6-1: Thunderstrom Electrification W6-2: Tornadoes Crazy physics but still published W6-3: Thoughts and Data about Hurricanes The Gulf Loop Current 2005 Enhancement Some In(Famous) Hurricanes
WEEK 7: MIDTERM MON NOV 9 W7-1: Some remarks on atmospheric scattering Atmospheric Optics	WEEK 8: Radiative Forcing W8-0: Review of Midterm The Thermal Wind Again W8-1: Radiation Balance I W8-2: Radiation Balance II W8-3: Climate Forcings W8-4: Ice Age Forcings W8-5: Scientists in the Public
WEEK 9: Some Fluid Stuff W9-1: Incompressible Flow Issues W9-2: Density Scale Height W9-3: The Boussinesq Approximation W9-4: To Boussinesq or Not NO CLASS WED Nov 25	WEEK 10: Interesting Aspects of a Fluid, Rotating Earth Ekman Transport Ekman and YouTube Ekman Boundary Layer Ekman Transport and Upwelling The MJO Oscillation