GEOG 5231/4231 - Fall 2001

Professor Konrad Steffen
CIRES Ekeley Building, S264
Tel o: 492 4524; h: 494 6276
e-mail koni@seaice.colorado.edu

Semester Schedule, Fall 2001
 

Aug 30 CIRES W240
Course outline, Lab reports guidelines
Boundary layer characteristics
Data logger and programming - overview

Sept 6 CIRES W240
Data logger programming -principles
Measurements and instruments
Data logger programming - practice I 

Sept 13 CIRES W240
Principles of radiation instruments
Data logger programming - practice II 
Tem/Hum/Wind data logger program

Sept. 20 no class

Sept. 27 CIRES W240
Reaction time of photovaltaic versus thermopile radiation sensors
Data logger programming and measurements for this experiment.
Lab Report I: Reaction times of radiation instruments

Oct 4 no class Fall break

Oct 11 CIRES W240
Surface energy fluxes: turbulent and conductive
Finish Lab Report I 

Oct 18 no class

Oct 25 CIRES W240 
Preparations for field excursion: 
Calibration of profile instruments and measurements

Oct 26-28 Fri 11a- Sun 6 p Rocky Mtn Divide
Camping in tent 
Turbulent and radiative fluxes
Lab Report II: Data logger programs and connections

Nov 1 no class

Nov 8 CIRES W240
Preparations for field excursion: 
Aerodynamic and eddy correlation
theory, Radiation sensor calibration 
Finish Lab Report II

Nov 9-11 Fri 11a-Sun 6p Rocky Mtn Research Station, Niwot Ridge
Energy Balance measurements, Radiation calibration
Report III: Data analysis of Niwot data set and interpretation

Nov 15 CIRES W240 
Data analysis, statistical methods, graphical methods

Nov 22 no class Thanksgiving

Nov 29 CIRES W230 
Global energy balance 
Finish Lab Report III 

Dec 6 CIRES W230 
Grad. Student presentations
Final discussion