GEO 387H
HYDROCLIMATOLOGY(Unique# 52220 TTh 9:30-11:00)
Spring 2004
Tentative Schedules:
| Tuesday | Thursday | Topics | Assignments | |
| Week 1 | 1/20 Intro., Diagnostic Test | 1/22 Chapter 1, Hydrostatic Eqn | 1 | HW #1 (Ch. 1) |
| Week 2 | 1/27 Chapter 1 cont'd | 1/29 Chapter 2, Global Energy Balance | 3, 9, 11 | |
| Week 3 | 2/3 HW#1 explained; Chapter 2 cont'd | 2/5 Chapter 3, Radiative Transfer and Climate | 3, 9, 11 | HW #2 (Ch. 2 and Ch. 3) |
| Week 4 | 2/10 Chapter 4, Surface Energy Balance | 2/12 Chapter 4 Atmospheric Boundary Layer - Reynolds Averaging - z0,d,Cd,ra | 4 | |
| Week 5 | 2/17 Chapter 4, SEB in Land-Surface Models | 2/19 Chapter 5, Hydrological Cycle | 4, 5 | HW #3 (Ch. 4) |
| Week 6 | 2/24 Chapter 5, Clouds | 2/26 Chapter 5, Precipitation | 5 | |
| Week 7 | 3/2 Chapter 5, Surface Water Balance | 3/4 Chapter 5, Evaporation and Transpiration; P-M equation; Leaf stomata, rs | 5 | HW #4 (Ch. 5) |
| Week 8 | 3/9 Chapter 5, Review | 3/11 Chapter 5, SWB in Land-Surface Models | 5 | HW #5 Land-Surface Modeling Project |
| Week 9 | 3/16 Spring Break | 3/18 Spring Break | ||
| Week 10 | 3/23 Chapter 6 General Circulation and Climate | 3/25 Chapter 6 cont'd | 6 | HW #6 (TBA) |
| Week 11 | 3/30 Chapter 7 Oceans and Climate | 4/1 Chapter 7 Ocean-Atmosphere Interactions and Teleconnections | 7 | HW #7 (TBA) |
| Week 12 | 4/6 Chapter 10 Climate Modeling | 4/8 Chapter 10 Simple Models - Energy Balance Models | 2, 10 | HW #8 Web-Based EBM Modeling Project |
| Week 13 | 4/13 Chapter 10 General Circulation Models | 4/15 Chapter 10 Regional Climate Models | 2,10 | |
| Week 14 | 4/20 Chapters 11 and 12: Climate Variability and Climate Change | 4/22 Chapters 8 and 9: Climate sensitivity, feedbacks and paleoclimate | 8,9,11,12 | HW #9 (TBA) |
| Week 15 | 4/27 Research in Hydroclimatology I | 4/29 Research in Hydroclimatology II | 8,9,10,11,12 | |
| Week 16 | 5/4 Research in Hydroclimatology III | 5/6 Presentation | 8,9,10,11,12 | Presentation |