GEOG 166: "Physical Climatology"

GEOG 166: "Physical Climatology"

SPRING QUARTER 2004, with CHRIS FUNK; Back to the Main Page

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> I hope you enjoyed the class, and good luck in your future endeavors. Feel free to e-mail me (ted@geog.ucsb.edu) anytime to let me know what you're up to, and if you're still at UCSB, I hope to see you around campus: I'll probably be at UCSB until spring 2009 or so. Thanks for being such great students!

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GEOG 166 Course Description, from UCSB's Course Catalog:

"Study of the processes which create the earth's climate. Flows of energy and material in the atmosphere and interactions with the surface. Large-scale atmospheric circulation patterns. Spatial and temporal variability. Climate modeling."

GEOG 166 Textbook:

Global Physical Climatology
by Dennis L. Hartmann, . International geophysics ; v. 56. 1994. San Diego: Academic Press. x, 411 p.
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/els032/93039578.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/els032/93039578.html

Other books you may find useful:

Understanding Weather and Climate.
by Edward Aguado, and James E. Burt, 3rd ed. 2004. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education. xxix, 560 p.

Meteorology Today : an introduction to weather, climate, and the environment.
by C. Donald Ahrens, 6th ed. 2000. Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks/Cole Pub. xviii, 528 p.

A good physics textbook, and a calculus book too.

OTHER CLASS-RELATED RESOURCES:

NOAA's sunrise and sunset calculator:

This calculates the exact times of sunrise, local solar noon, and sunset, for anywhere on Earth, on any day. It utilizes formulas we're learning in GEOG 166, plus a few corrections for atmospheric effects which you can learn about in GEOG 102A.

http://srrb.noaa.gov/highlights/sunrise/sunrise.html

Starry Night Planetarium Software:

This program accurately renders the configurations of stars, planets, and orbiting satellites, at any time past, present, or future. You can set your viewpoint anywhere on Earth, around the solar system, or from the perspective of a nearby star. This is one of my favorite programs. It's useful for visualizing the Earth-sun orbital relationships, and sunrise, sunset, daylength, solar zenith and azimuth angles, from any latitude-longitude, at any time.

You'll enjoy this most with a fast computer.

http://www.starrynight.com/digitaldownload/trial_download.php

Joel Michaelsen's class website for GEOG 110 (Meteorology):

http://www.geog.ucsb.edu/~joel/g110_w04/index.html

WeatherBug Desktop Real-Time Weather Info

This downloadable utility runs in the background on your computer. It displays real-time weather parameters like temperature, relative humidity, and wind speed and direction, from any of over 6,000 weather stations in the United States. The closest station to UCSB is the Santa Barbara Municipal Airport, which usually only reports weather information every hour, but other WeatherBug stations can report changes in these parameters every minute. WeatherBug is neat!

http://weatherbug.com/aws/index.asp

National Weather Service Forecast and Current Conditions for Santa Barbara

http://www.crh.noaa.gov/forecasts/CAZ039.php?warncounty=CAC083&city=Santa+Barbara

National Weather Service Data on Santa Barbara's Climate

http://www.nwsla.noaa.gov/climate/sba.html