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| Homework Assignments - Fall 2009 Updated: November 22, 2009 2:03 PM |
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| Sept. 21 | 1 | Human population: Where we've been and where we're going, demographic changes. Try Google's GapMinder sofware yourself! Homework 1 (here) Due Sept 21 in class |
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| Oct. 5 | 2 | Natural ozone production and destruction and the role of CFC's. (PPT, PDF) Homework 2 (HW2.doc) Molina, M.J. and Rowland, F.S., 1974. Stratospheric sink for chlorofluoromethanes: Chlorine atom-catalysed destruction of ozone. Nature, 249 (810-812) (PDF) Farman, J.C., Gardiner, B.G., and Shaaklia, J.D., 1985. Large total ozone in Antarctica reveal seasonal ClOx/NOx interaction, Nature, 315 (207-210) (PDF) |
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| Oct. 28 | 3 | El Nino. |
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| Nov. 16 | 4 | Understanding the Greenhouse gas effect. |
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| Nov. 30 | 5 | Climate sensitivity. |
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| There will be eight homework assignments for the semester. I'll use your highest six homework grades to calculate your overall homework grade which will be worth 15% of your final grade. Note that homework assignments must be your own work always; evidence to the contrary will result in a zero entered for your entire semster homework grade. |
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