GG101

This course is an introduction to weather and climate. Topics include the controls of weather and climate, day-to-day variations in weather, severe storms, climates of the world, and climatic change.

Course Information:

Syllabus
Grades. Also see the notes on grading.
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Test Your Knowledge:

Questions for Thought. Apply what you've learned in class to these problems!
Test your meteorology vocabulary with the matching exercises. Currently available sets are:
humidity | pressure | air masses and fronts | thunderstorms and tornadoes
Do you know your clouds? Take the cloud quiz.
Do you think that you have a solid understanding of the material? If so, enter Contest 101. The challenge and the prize make it worth a try. Who are the Spring '99 winners?

Resources:

Message board. Leave a question for the professor, TF, or fellow students.
If you're interested in having a tutor, check out the BU University Resource Center. Tutors are available for GG101 most semesters. It is a free service to BU students. The tutor for this semester is Kelly Kryc from Earth Sciences.
Read Alistair Fraser's comments on air "holding" water.
Read a more detailed explanation of the Coriolis effect, courtesy of Dave Van Domelen at Ohio State, Department of Physics.
Read the Lightning Primer from NASA's Global Hydrology and Climate Center.
Check out the Climate Prediction Center's tutorial on El Nino/La Nina.
Visit The Aurora Page (M.T. Dolan at Michigan Technological Institute) for information about the Northern Lights.
Other web links: weather and climate

Be very, very careful what you put into that head,
because you will never, ever get it out.
Thomas Cardinal Wolsey (1471-1530)

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