In your text, you are responsible for the material covered in Chapters 4-6.  You are also responsible for Lecture Sets 6, 7, and 8.  Additionally, you are responsible for the material assigned from the following modules on the WW2010 web site: (1) the "Hydrologic Cycle" and (2) "Clouds and Precipitation".  You are responsible for the following modules from your CDROM: (1) "Atmospheric Moisture" and (2) "Adiabatic Processes".  Lastly, make certain to review: (1) Lab 6 (pages 73-80) in your lab manual and (2) the supplementary lab exercise (phase changes & RH) that you worked on in class and handed-in.  The answer keys to both exercises are posted on the bulletin board outside of my office.  (Please do not take them from their location outside of my office because fellow students may want to look at them as well.)

Below you will find a list of material that was emphasized in class. This is not meant to be an all inclusive list of material that will be on the exam. Study hard, and good luck!!!!  Please remember to bring a scan-tron sheet to the exam.
 
 

I.    Atmospheric Moisture (Chapter 4)

• General water concepts
• Salinity
• Distribution of Earth's Water
• The hydrologic cycle
• Phase Changes
• Latent Heat
• Atmospheric Moisture - vapor pressure, saturation vapor pressure, relative humidity, dew point
• Affect of temperature on Relative Humidity

II. Clouds, Precipitation Processes, Fog, and Stability (Chapters 5 and 6)

• cloud and precipitation formation processes (Ice Crystal Process; Collision-Coalescence Process; Condensation
• forms of precipitation
• cloud classification: high, middle, low, vertically developed
• basic cloud types
• fog types (advection; evaporation; radiation) and formation
• hydrostatic equilibrium
• stability: adiabatic processes, DAR, MAR, environmental lapse rate, unstable, stable, and conditionally unstable air, diabatic heating