| 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 |