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GEOGRAPHY 111 LABORATORY Introduction to Meteorology and Climatology Dear Student: This is NOT a stand-alone course!! You should only enroll in this lab if you are currently taking, or have previously taken, the lecture course "Introduction to Physical Geography: Meteorology and Climatology", 15-041-101. The lab is designed to elucidate concepts presented in lecture, in the fervent belief that a "hands-on" lab experience enhances understanding and insight. It has been shown that students enrolled in both a science lecture and lab achieve higher grades than those enrolled in the lecture only. The lab material is presented in the same sequence as the lecture material. Thus, the terms and concepts used in the lab assignment explicitly assume that you have attended lecture and have read the assigned chapters in the text book. Many of the exercises refer you to passages and diagrams in the text. For this reason, it is necessary to bring Christopherson’s Geosystems, 4th Edition, to each class meeting. Although most of the materials will be supplied, it is necessary for you to bring some supplies and equipment including: calculator, straight edge/ruler, protractor, several colored pencils, and similar items which you should have in your possession anyway. Your TA will give you further details. As a final note, I should mention that a portion of each lab involves plotting data on a graph provided. Most of the data are available as data (*.DAT) or Excel (*.xls) files on the web site and can be accessed and plotted. This should, of course, be done neatly, but plotting data is not the purpose of the exercise. Instead, concentrate on understanding and explaining the patterns that will emerge. This is why the graphical representation of data is superior to the tabular format. To access labs and lab data, click on Syllabus, and go to the desired lab number (1-10). When you click on the lab number you will be sent to a directory called 111 that contains Word 95 copies of the labs and Excel/data files. These are entitled 111-???, where ??? refers to the lab number (1-10). You can download the files. Be aware, however, that some files don't contain all the figures because it makes the files too large.
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