Syllabus

Lecturer

傅宗玫 (fuzm@sustech.edu.cn, +86(755)8801-8872, 台州楼414)

Teaching Assistant

TBD. All students must send an email to the TA by September 13, including their name + year + major + student ID + cell phone number. There will also be a QQ group for the class.

Students

Undergraduate students in hydrology, environmental sciences, oceanography, physics, chemistry, and other disciplines

Time and location

Tuesdays 8:00-9:50 (every week), Fridays 10:20-12:10 (even weeks)

Discussions

By email appointments

Course material

The follow two textbooks are on reserve in the library:

AS: Atmospheric Science, An Introductory Survey, J. M. Wallace and P. V. Hobbs, Academic Press, ISBN:012732951X
MT: Meteorology Today, C. D. Ahrens and R. Henson, Brooks Cole, ISBN:1305113586
Meteorology and Climatology: other material Check weekly! 其他参考资料，每周关注！
Meteorology and Climatology Glossary 中英文名词对照
Python resources

Assessments

Final exam (30%)：
Term project (30%)：
Assignments and pop quizzes (40%)

Field trip

TBD

Course schedule (to be updated)

Week	Date	Subject	Assignment	Reading
1	9/3 T	The Earth system and the Atmosphere		AS Ch1-2; MT Ch1
2	9/10 T	Tutorial 1	Assignment 0: Python basics
2	9/13 F	中秋节放假
3	9/17 T	Atmospheric thermodynamics		AS Ch3; MT Ch3-4
4	9/24 T	Atmospheric thermodynamics	Assignment 1: Thermodynamics	AS Ch3; MT Ch3-4
4	9/27 F	Radiative transfer		AS Ch4; MT Ch2
	10/1 T	国庆放假
5	10/8 T	Radiative transfer	Assignment 2: Radiative transfer	AS Ch4; MT Ch2
6	10/15 T	Aerosols		AS Ch5
6	10/18 F	Cloud and precipitation		AS Ch6; MT Ch5-7
7	10/22 T	Tutorial 2	Assignment 3: Aerosol, clouds, and precipitation
8	10/29 T	Atmospheric boundary layer and turbulence		AS Ch9; MT Ch9
8	11/1 F	Atmospheric measurement
9	11/5 T	Atmospheric motion	Assignment 4: Boundary layer and measurements	AS Ch7; MT Ch11
10	11/12 T	Mid- and high-latitude weather		AS Ch8; MT Ch12
10	11/15 F	Low-latitude weather, severe weather		AS Ch8; MT Ch13-16
11	11/19 T	Tutorial 3	Assignment 5: Weather
12	11/26 T	General circulation of the atmosphere		AS Ch7; MT Ch10, Ch17
12	11/29 F	General circulation of the atmosphere		AS Ch7; MT Ch10, Ch17
13	12/3 T	General circulation of the ocean	Assignment 6: General circulation
14	12/10 T	Climate system and variability		AS Ch10; MT Ch17-18
14	12/13 F	Climate change and hydrology		AS Ch10; MT Ch17-18
15	12/17 T	Term presentation	Assignment 7: Climate change and variability
16	12/24 T	Climate modeling
16	12/27 F	Paleoclimate
17-18	12/30-1/10	期末考试周

Assignments

Assignments will be distributed on Tuesdays and are due in two weeks on Tuesday, BEFORE CLASS STARTS. No late assignments will be graded.

Resources for learning python

Most assignments require calculation and plotting using Python in Jupyter Notebooks. Python is a powerful programming language, while Jupyter Notebooks provide an easy, web-based way to combine code, plots, and descriptive text.

Students are encouraged to install Python and Jupyter using the popular Anaconda distribution. See our Python resources page for instructions. Students enrolled in this course will also be granted access to a SUSTech server running Jupyter, but this can only be used within the SUSTech network (but you can use a SUSTech VPN outside campus).

If you are new to Python or to Jupyter, we recommend that you go through a few online tutorials. Check out our Python resources page.

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