ESSPM Climate and Water

    ESSPM Water and Climate Schedule

    unit
    reading
    due
    homework
    due 
    lecture
    lab lecture/discussion instructor
    1
    Winter, III-3
    USGS primer
     
    Water for the world
    Units, dimensions, and conversions
    Bio2 water budget
    Structure and properties of H2O
    Water in everyday life
    TBA
    2
    The vital fluid
    Kump, 72-77
    Hornberger, ch. 1
     
    HW 1
     
    Hydrological cycle 
    Evaporation, condensation and precipitation
    Properties of water
    Water for Arizona 1
    TBA
     3
    Hornberger,
    ch. 5
    Streams, floods and droughts
    Flood predictions
    Mississippi flood 1993
    TBA
    4
    Dams
    Water quality lab in Bio2
     Darcy's law
    TBA
     5
    Winter, 2-53
     
    HW 2
     
    Groundwater flow 
     Darcy's law
    Water for Arizona 2
    Mexico City/Ogallala
    Water issues US
    TBA
     6
    Winter, 54-78
    Groundwater transport
    Groundwater flow model
    Arsenic in Bangladesh
    Global water issues
    TBA
    7
    Kump, ch. 3
      HW 3  
     Earth's Energy Budget, Solar Radiation
    The Earth's Radiation Budget I
     The Greenhouse Effect
    TBA
    8
    Kump, ch. 4
     
     Moisture, Clouds and Rainstorms
    The Earth's Radiation Budget II
     Atmospheric Forces and Balances: Pressure and Wind
    TBA
    9
    HW 4
     
     Atmospheric Circulation, Climate Zones of the Earth 
    Climatological Structure of the Atmosphere
    Variability of Weather, Weather and Climate forecasts
    TBA
    10
    Kump, ch. 12
     
     Ocean-Atmosphere fluxes, ENSO
    El Nino
    Climate impacts due to ENSO and other climate phenomena
    TBA
    11
    Kump, ch. 5
     
    Ocean circulation, Ocean heat transport
    Ocean Circulation
    The ocean's CO2 cycle
    TBA
    12
     Kump, ch. 12+13
    Past Climate variability, Ice cores, Tree rings
    Photosynthesis, Carbon Dioxide Cycles
     Future Changes, Climate Prediction
    TBA
    13
    Final Exam
     
    TBA
    by: martins@ldeo.columbia.edu