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• 09:00-09:40 Elinah Khasandi Kuya (GEF 4310)
• 09:45-10:25 Charalampos Sarchosidis (GEF 4310)
• 10:30-11:10 Birthe Marie Rødssæteren Steensen (GEF 9310)
• 11:15-11:55 Borgar Aamaas (GEF 9310)

Examination committee:

• Jón Egill Kristjánsson
• Terje K. Berntsen

• Chapter 11: 4
• Chapter 12: 3

• Regular lecture on Mon 4 May
• Regular lecture on Fri 8 May
• Regular lecture on Mon 11 May
• No lecture on Fri 15 May
• Regular lecture on Mon 18 May
• No lecture on Fri 22 May
• No lecture on Mon 25 May (public holiday)
• Oral exam on Thu 28 May

Chapter 9: 1

Chapter 10: 2

Results can be obtained from Jón Egill by e-mail, telephone or personal appearance.

Monday 13 April: Borgar Aamaas: "REVIEW: Stratocumulus clouds" by Wood (2012) in Mon. Wea. Rev. - Part 1

Friday 17 April: Borgar Aamaas: "REVIEW: Stratocumulus clouds" by Wood (2012) in Mon. Wea. Rev. - Part 2

Monday 27 April: Birthe Marie Steensen: "Importance of tropospheric volcanic aerosol for indirect radiative forcing of climate" by Schmidt et al. (2012) in Atmos.Chem.Phys.

Monday 4 May: Birthe Marie Steensen: "Warming-induced increase in aerosol number concentration likely to moderate climate change" + "Supplement" by Paasonen et al. (2013) in Nature Geosci.

Chapter 8: 1, 2, 5.

There are a number of errors and typos in the text book. Errata can be downloaded here

On Monday 23 March the regular lecture will be replaced by questions (by you) and answers in advance of the mid-term exam on Wednesday 25 March

There will be no lecture on Monday 16 March because of the Ph.D. defence by Camilla W. Stjern, which you are invited to attend (see separate announcement)!

There will be no classes on 2 or 6 March due to the HPC FORTRAN course by Anne Fouilloux which runs from 9 to 12 every morning that week.

The final (oral) exam this semester is tentatively scheduled for Thursday 28 May. 

Let me know immediately if this is a problem for you.

Jon Egill

Chapter 7: 1, 2

Chapter 6: 1a,c

Chapter 6: 3

• Chapter 4, problem 2
• Chapter 5, problem 1d,e,f
• Chapter 5, problem 6a,b

Please note that the mid-term exam, which counts 1/3 of the final grade will be held on Wednesday 25 March at 15:00-18:00, cf. http://www.uio.no/studier/emner/matnat/geofag/GEF4310/v15/eksamen/index.html

Chapter 1: The whole chapter

Chapter 2: Only subsection 2.1.4

Chapter 3: Only subsections 3.3.1, 3.4.1, 3.5.3, 3.5.4

Chapter 4: Section 4.5

Chapter 5: The whole chapter

Chapter 6: The whole chapter

Chapter 7: Figures 7.9, 7.10, 7.11, 7.13, 7.15, 7.16 plus the section "Formation of liquid on a soluble particle" and Section 7.2 except the section "Theory of heterogeneous nucleation".

Chapter 8: Sections 8.1 - 8.3, except 8.3.2, 8.3.3 and 8.3.5. In section 8.4: Only Figure 8.33 and surrounding discussion.

Chapter 9: The whole chapter, except:

• from eq. (9.15) to eq. (9.21)
• from eq. (9.23) to eq. (9.27)
• from eq. (9.30) to eq. (9.34)
• Figures 9.8 and 9.9

Chapter 10: The whole chapter

Chapter 11: The whole chapter

Chapter 12: The whole chapter

Chapter 13: Skip

Chapter 14: Skip

From Chapter 3:

1, 3 (except 3b), 6b

Clouds consist of moist air and particles of condensed water, either in the liquid or solid state. Here, consider an idealized, but nevertheless "typical" cloud that contains only liquid water droplets of uniform radius r_d=15 micrometers. The droplet number concentration is n_d=100 cm^-3, the temperature T=0C, and the pressure p=600 hPa. Calculate the following cloud properties:

a) The approximate distance between the centers of the droplets. How many droplet radii does this spacing represent? (It is sufficient to assume that the drops are uniformly spaced for this problem.)

b) What is the "volume fraction" of liquid water in the cloudy air? (i.e., What fraction of any given volume of the cloudy air, say 1 m³, is occupied by the liquid drops?). What is the dominant phase of the cloud (by volume)?

c) The "liquid water concentration" w_L of the cloud, in units of g m^-3.

The first lecture this semester will be given on Monday 19 January at 10:15-12:00 in Glasshallen 2.

We will use selected parts of the textbook "Physics and Chemistry of Clouds" by Dennis Lamb and Johannes Verlinde, Cambridge University Press, 2011, ISBN 978-0-521-89910-9.

Monday 19 January: Chapter 1 (repetition, introduction) + sub-chapter 2.1.4 (aerosols).

Friday 23 January: Problem 1.2 + sub-chapters 3.2-3.3 (moist thermodynamics)

More details to follow.

Jon Egill

Lectures will be held in Glasshallen 2, Ciens

Attendance at the first lecture is compulsory. Students who fail to meet, are considered to have withdrawn from the course unless they have previously given notice to the Studies administration, E-mail address: studieinfo@geo.uio.no.