ATOC 4710/5710
Study Guide for the Final Exam
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denotes "not emphasized heavily"
Overview of the Atmosphere
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Chapter 1.1 - Introduction (pages 1-4)
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Chapter 1.2 - Origin and Composition
of the Atmosphere (pages 4-8)
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Chapter 1.3 - Distribution of Atmospheric Mass and Gaseous
Constituents (pages 11-14)
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Chapter 1.5 - Atmospheric Temperature
(pages 21-28) (less emphasis on later pages)
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Chapter 1.6 - Winds in the Atmosphere
(pages 28-39)
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Chapter 1.7 - Precipitation (pages
39-44)
Important Figures
1.1, 1.3, 1.4, 1.8, 1.10, 1.22
Atmospheric Thermodynamics
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Chapter 2.1 - The Gas Laws (pages 48-51)
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Chapter 2.2 - The Hydrostatic Equation and its Implications
(pages 52-61)
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Chapter 2.3 - The First Law of Thermodynamics (pages 61-66)
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Chapter 2.4 - Latent Heats (pages 66-67)
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Chapter 2.5.2 - The Adiabatic Lapse Rate (page 68)
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Chapter 2.5.3 - Potential Temperature (pages 68-69)
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Chapter 2.5.4 - The Pseudoadiabatic Chart (pages 69-71)
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Chapter 2.6 - Water Vapor in the Air (pages 71-79 ignore
wet bulb temperature)
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Chapter 2.6.6 - Irreversible condensation (pages 80-81)
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Chapter 2.7 - Static Stability (pages 81-86)
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Chapter 2.8 - The Second Law of Thermodynamics
(pages 86-93)
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Chapter 2.8.3 - The Clausius-Clapeyron
Equation (pages 93-96...you don't have to know how to derive, just why
it is useful)
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Chapter 2.9 - Thermodynamic Functions
and Equilibrium Conditions (pages 98-101)
Important Figures
2.1, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 2.8, 2.10, 2.12, 2.15, 2.17, 2.18
Atmospheric Aerosol and Cloud Microphysical Processes
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Chapter 4.1 - Atmospheric Aerosol (pages 143-158)
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Chapter 4.2 - Nucleation of Water Vapor (pages 158-166)
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Chapter 4.3 - Warm Clouds (pages
167-169)
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Chapter 4.4 - Growth of Cloud Droplets in Warm Clouds (pages
169-181)
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Chapter 4.5 - The microphysics of Cold
Clouds (pages 181-199) (less emphasis on photographs
of ice crystals)
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Chapter 5.1 - Cloud Morphology (pages
216-238)
Important Figures
4.2, 4.5, 4.7, 4.8, 4.10, 4.11 (note error in x axis label),
4.12, 4.14, 4.15, 4.16, 4.19, 4.20, 4.21, 4.22, 4.23, 4.24, 4.25, 4.27,
4.28, 4.29, 4.32
5.1, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 5.7, 5.9, 5.12, 5.13, 5.15, 5.17, 5.31
Radiative Transfer
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Chapter 6.1 - The Spectrum of Radiation (pages 279-281)
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Chapter 6.2 - Absorption and Emission of Radiation by Molecules
(pages 281-283)
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Chapter 6.3 - Quantitative Description of Radiation (pages
283-287)
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Chapter 6.4 - Blackbody Radiation (pages 287-291)
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Chapter 6.6 - Atmospheric Absorption of Solar Radiation (pages
296-299)
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Chapter 6.7 - Absorption and Emission
of Infrared Radiation (pages 302-306)
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Chapter 6.8 - Scattering of Solar Radiation
(pages 306-308)
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Chapter 6.9 - The Role of Radiative
Transfer in the Global Energy Balance (pages 308-309)
Important Figures
6.1, 6.2, 6.4, 6.6, 6.10, 6.11, 6.12
The Global Energy Balance
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Chapter 7.1 - Globally Averaged Atmospheric
Energy Balance (pages 316-322)
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Chapter 7.2 - The Energy Balance of
the Upper Atmosphere (pages 322-326)
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Chapter 7.3 - Tropospheric Energy Balance
(pages 330-338)
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Chapter 7.4 - The Energy Balance at
the Earth's Surface (pages 338-342)
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Chapter 7.5 - Time Variations in the
Energy Balance (pages 342-354)
Important Figures
7.1, 7.2, 7.7, 7.8, 7.9, 7.11, 7.16