• Review of basic concepts (Petty pp. 1-13)
  • atmospheric composition
  • moisture variables
  • air pressure and weight

• Temperature and kinetic energy (pp. 13-48)

• Boyle’s Law
• Charles’ Law
• Avogadro’s Law
• Dalton’s law of partial pressures

• Hydrostatic equation (pp. 83-122)
  • geometric height and geopotential height
  • hypsometric equation

Sep 30

Oct 7

• Conservation of energy (pp. 49-60)
  • thermodynamic systems
  • state and process variables
  • differentials

• Pressure-volume work (pp. 123-129)
  • path dependence of process variables

• First Law of thermodynamics (pp. 129-136)
  • Joule’s Law
  • special forms of the First Law

• Dry adiabatic processes (pp. 136-142)
  • dry adiabatic lapse rate

Nov 4

Nov 11

• Entropy (pp. 142-151; 161-166)
  • Second Law of thermodynamics
  • consequences of the Second Law
  • the atmosphere as a heat engine
  • potential temperature

• Enthalpy and sensible heat (pp. 151-161)
  • diabatic processes

Nov 25

Dec 2

• Moist processes (pp. 167-238)
  • saturation and relative humidity
  • latent heat
  • Clausius-Clapeyron equation

• Atmospheric stability (pp. 239-278)