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Physical
Climatology: Principles
GEOG 5211/4211 - Fall
2003
Professor Konrad Steffen
CIRES Ekeley Building, S264
Tel o: 492 4524
e-mail konrad.steffen@colorado.edu
Lecture Outline
Topics Assigned Reading
| 1 |
Atmospheric System |
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| 1.1 |
Energy and Mass Exchange |
BLC, chapter 1 |
| 1.2 |
Physical Basis of Boundary
Layer |
BLC, chapter 2 |
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| 2 |
Radiative and Turbulent
Fluxes |
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| 2.1 |
Evaluation of energy
and mass fluxes |
BLC, appendix 2 |
| 2.2 |
The Global energy balance |
GPC: chapter 2 |
| 2.3 |
The energy balance of
the surface |
GPC: chapter 4 |
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| Midterm Exam |
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| 3 |
Natural atmospheric
environment |
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| 3.1 |
Climates of non-vegetated
surfaces |
BLC, chapter 3 |
| 3.2 |
Climates of vegetated
surfaces |
BLC, chapter 4 |
| 3.3 |
Climates of non-uniform
terrain |
BLC: chapter 5 |
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| 4 |
Climate variability |
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| 4.1 |
Climate sensitivity
and feedback mech |
GPC: chapter 9 |
| 4.2 |
Natural climate change |
GPC: chapter 11 |
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| Final Exam |
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BLC: Boundary Layer
Climates, T.R. Oke, Methuen London and New York
GPC: Global Physical Climatology, D.L. Hartmann, Academic Press.
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