Spring 2005

Geography 4331 / 5331

Mountain Climatology

Tuesday & Thursday 2:00 – 3:15 p.m. Guggenheim 2

Roger G. Barry

CIRES / Geography, phone (303) 492-5488

E-mail:

Office Hours: Guggenheim 204: 1:30 - 2:00 p.m. T, Th; RL2 by appointment

Structure: / The course will survey research on altitudinal and topographic effects on weather and climate in mountain areas and discuss mountain climate characteristics (including bioclimatology and climate change) in different climate regions. A basic weather/climate college background course is required.
Grading: / 4331: Midterms I & II 25 % each, Final 50%
5331: Midterms I & II 20 % each, Final 30%, Paper 30%
Text: / R.G. Barry, 1992 Mountain Weather and Climate, (2nd edn. Paperback) Routledge.
Library reserve: / Class notes and other readings will be placed on reserve online on a weekly basis.

Dates

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Major Topics

17 Jan. / INTRODUCTION: Scale considerations; physical characteristics of mountains
19 Jan. / CLIMATE OBSERVATIONS: (M.C. Serreze)
24Jan – 7Feb. / CLIMATE FACTORS AND ALTITUDE EFFECTS: Pressure, water vapor, radiation components, temperature, wind.
9 – 23 Feb. / OROGRAPHIC EFFECTS: Airflow-lee waves and larger-scale effects, dynamically-forced winds, thermal wind systems.
28 Feb. /
REVIEW
2 Mar. /

MID-TERM EXAM I [5331 PROJECT PAPER ABSTRACT DUE]

9 – 16 Mar. / CLIMATE CHARACTERISTICS: Energy budget and temperature, Cloud regimes, Precipitation, Moisture budget.
21 – 23 Mar. / BIOCLIMATOLOGY: (altitude and cold)
27 – 31 Mar. / Spring Break
4 – 18 Apr. / REGIONAL CASE STUDIES: Equatorial, tropical., and mid-latitudes.
20 Apr. /
MID TERM EXAM II
25 – 27 Apr. / CLIMATE CHANGE IN MOUNTAIN AREAS:
2May / 5331 PROJECT REPORT PRESENTATIONS AND REVIEW
4 May /
REVIEW
6 May (Sat.) / FINAL EXAM:4:30-7:00 p.m.

Corrections : 2nd edn Mountain Weather and Climate. R.G.Barry

p.7 Table 1.2 Col. 5: Mount Washington 1870-92 should read 1890-1892.

p.21, 4 lines up: x2 should read xl/2.

p.21, 3 lines up: x3 should read xl/3.

p.22, 1.2. should read: The predominance of maritime air masses in west coast...

p.32, 3 lines up: insert a period after (Maurer 1912).

p.38, 3 lines up: Eckel (1936).

p.42, Figure caption. Add: Units are kcal cm-2 (100 kcal cm-2 = 133 W m -2).

p.55, 7 lines up: San Bernardino.

p.56, Figure caption, line 2. (eighths).

p.65, 12 lines up: Equation term -g/po (dθ/dz) should be -g/p0 (dp/ dz)

p.66, line 19: Substitute F = U / N h = 2Π U / h S^1/2or 2 Π / l h

p.70, line 3 : PD=- UpΔL/L p.70, line 6: p = air density

p.96. Note 2, line 7: If the kinetic energy of the upwind flow ( = U2 / 2) p.96, Note 4, line 6: N = 0.01 s-1 p.96, Note 4, line 7, N = 0.04s-1

p.l31,line83T/DZ = 6.5Kkm"1 and/= 1.116km"1 and X = 5.6km

p.135, line 4: or subcritical (F < 1)

p. 163, 2 lines up : McNider

p. 194 Insert: Kashara, A., (1980)" Influence of orography on the atmospheric circulation", in Hide. R. and White, P.W.(eds) Orographic Effecrs on Planetan Flows, GARP Publication Series, no.23, pp. 1-49, Geneva,WMO-ICSU.

p.208, 7 lines up : effective back-radiation

p.214, line8:Ch.2, pp. 90-92.

p.216, line 1: Ch.6, pp. 358-63. p.231, 7 lines up: see p. 307.

p.264, Table 4.6, column 2. line 10-12: deposit grows triangularly upwind,

p.301, The Himalaya, line 1 .. some 3000 km in length

p.306, line 2: During the monsoon season rainfall decreases

p.317, line 21, Bezinge, 1974.

p.365, line 28 IntermontaneForest and Range Experimental Station

p.382, 2 lines up (273 K)

p.400, column 2 : insert corrections as follows:

Sterten, A.K. 169, 170, 203, 204

Steven, M.D. 79, 105

Stewart, R.E., 239, 293

Stigter, C.T., 274, 297 Stone, R.G. 7, 8, 16

Storebo, P.E. 227, 293

Storr, D. 29, 98, 274, 297