Meteorology 302'2 Our Violent Planet and Atmosphere

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Meteorology 302.2Our Violent Planet and
Atmosphere

• Fall 2007
• Monday 600 PM - 850 PM
• Thornton 604
• Instructor Woody Whitlatch
• Roll Call and Class Adds

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Meteorology 302

• Part of Our Violent Planet Series
• Its important to distinguish the difference
  between climate and weather
• Climate is what you expect
• Weather is what you get
• Sometimes what we get disrupts daily life, causes
  damage to property, and may result in injury and
  death

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Meteorology 302

• Part of Our Violent Planet Series
• Climate is what you expect Weather is what you
  get
• Sometimes what we get disrupts daily life, causes
  damage to property, and may result in injury and
  death
• What Well Cover
• Fundamentals of Meteorology
• Causes for development of violent weather
• Specific types of violent weather including
  severe storms, hurricanes, tornadoes, El Nino/La
  Nina
• Global warming
• No Prior Knowledge of Math or Meteorology
• (one exceptionadd/subtract/multiply/divide)

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Meteorology 302

• Part of Our Violent Planet Series
• Climate is what you expect Weather is what you
  get
• Sometimes what we get disrupts daily life, causes
  damage to property, and may result in injury and
  death
• What Well Cover
• Fundamentals of Meteorology
• Causes for development of violent weather
• Specific types of Violent weather including
  severe storms, hurricanes, tornadoes, cold wave,
  heat waves
• Consequences of violent weather
• No Prior Knowledge of Math or Meteorology
• Text Severe and Hazardous Weather
  
• Rauber, Walsh and Charlevoix, 2nd edition (not
  lab book)
• Internet Access Essential
• Review Syllabus

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Woody Whitlatch, Lecturer

• BA Political Science, Belmont Abbey College, NC -
  1970
• BS Meteorology, San Jose State 1980
• MS Meteorology, San Jose State - 1990
• PGE Meteorology Services group since 1978
• Lead Forecaster
• CPUC Testimony on climate zones
• Field data project manager
• Diablo Canyon Emergency Response Team
• Developed Storm Emergency Response System
• Developed probability forecasting products
• Published and presented papers on weather effects
  on various utility issues

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Woody Whitlatch, Lecturer

• Email woodyw_at_sfsu.edu
• Office Room 609
• Office Hours Monday 5-6PM
• Phone [phone]

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Student Introductions

• Name
• Major
• Where you grew up
• Places you have lived
• Any severe weather you have experienced

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A Few Random Questions

• If someone says its 10 C outside what do you
  think it is in F
• 30 50 70 90
• Which causes the most deaths per year in the US
  (based on 1993-2003 statistics)
• Tornadoes Heat Waves Lightning
  Hurricanes Floods

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Homework Due Mon, Sep 10
Global Warming Paper (2 pages 40 pts) Guidelines
Based on the movie the Inconvenient Truth Movie
and any other information you may find, write a
short paper (two pages, double spaced, 12 pt
font,)         Your personal feelings about
global warming before today (10 points)        
Discuss two of the claims presented in the movie
(see next slide10 points each)         Discuss
if the movie influenced your opinion on global
warming (10 pts) Note there are no wrong or
right answers to these question, grades are based
on your answering all the above questions in an
understandable manner
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Pick two claims from the movie Inconvenient Truth
and discuss them

• Claim Heat waves will be more frequent and more
  intense as temperatures rise.
• Claim Deaths from global warming will double in
  just 25 years to 300,000 people a year.
• Claim More than a million species worldwide
  could be driven to extinction in just half a
  century as a result of global warming.
• Claim Global warming will also cause the
  introduction of new, invasive species.
• Claim Global sea levels could rise by more than
  20 feet (6 meters) with the loss of shelf ice in
  Greenland and Antarctica, devastating coastal
  areas worldwide.
• Claim The Arctic Ocean could be ice-free in
  summer by 2050.
• ALSO Read Chapter 1