ENSC 201 - Final Exam Checkpoints

The final exam covers concepts covered in lectures, labs, and weather project from the whole semester, including the following concepts:

troposphere	tropopause	stratosphere	stratopause	mesosphere
Hadley Cell	Ferrel Cell	Polar Cell	atmospheric gases	cons. of energy
ITCZ	force	work	heat flux	heat flux density
radiant energy	kinetic energy	geopotential energy	internal energy	latent heat
emissivity	radiation	conduction	convection	reflectivity
transmissivity	absorptivity	Planck's Law	Wien's Law	Stefan-Boltzmann Law
Kirchoff's Law	shortwave	attenuation	albedo	absorption
scattering	longwave	K $\downarrow$ , K$\uparrow$ , L $\downarrow$ , L$\uparrow$	Q*	QH , QE , QG
water balance	ideal gas law	cosine law	solar constant	atmos. window
greenhouse effect	selective absorber	diffuse rad'n	direct rad'n	rad'n instruments
clouds	Bowen ratio	LV	saturation	partial saturation
e,$\rho_{v}^{}$, TD, RH	vpd, r, rs , Tw	evaporation	condensation	sublimation
cumulus	stratus	mid-clouds	cirrus	cloud types/formation
radiation balance	soil water budget	surface energy budget	radiation models	frost
max/min thermom.	sky condition	wind estimation	black body	solar declination
sig. figs.	dimens. analysis	SI units	conversions	contouring
graphing	latitude	longitude	zenith angle	elevation angle
ideal gas law	hydrostatic law	air pressure	barometer	hypsometric eq'n
surface charts	upper level charts	jet stream	air mass	fronts
mid-latitude cyclone	stability	DALR	SALR	ELR
cloud formation	1st law of thermo.	air parcels	potential temp.	stable
unstable	conditionally unst.	air quality	condensation	CCN
curvature effect	solute effect	coalescence/capture	Bergeron process	rain
snow	ice pellets	freezing rain	drizzle	snow grains/pellets
hail/graupel	rain gauge	radar	forces	PGF
friction	coriolis	natural coords.	geostrophic	gradient wind
Buys-Ballots law	wind with friction	cyclostrophic	radiation meas.	real/apparent forces
energy budget	radiation budget	water balance	humidity variables	humidity meas.
pressure meas.	wx map analysis	wx map/sat. interp.	report writing	citing/referencing
warm core low	tropical cyclone	hurricane	frontal analysis	frontal weather
air pollution	particulate matter	inversion	TRS
weather maps	radar	freezing rain	ice pellets	graupel
thunderstorm	lightning	hail	blizzard	derecho
ice storm	snow squall	tornado	MLC cross section	ozone
positive feedback	negative feedback	climate models	climate change	Milankovitch
UVB	ozone hole	radiative forcing	anthrogenic forcing	ice age

Final Exam Format

The exam is 9:00 - 12:00 on 15 April 2024 in 8-164. It is a closed-book exam. Calculators are allowed. Answers are written on the exam sheets. The total exam is worth 33% of your course grade with questions on the lecture component / lab component / weather project component. The exam will be structured as follows:

1. $\sim$ 15-20 multiple choice questions, similar to those used in the moodle reading quizzes as well as the midterms. They can cover lecture, lab and Wx Proj content.
2. $\sim$ 2-5 short answer or ``Define and explain the atmospheric importance of the following / compare and contrast'' type questions. (e.g. words from the list above). Note that definitions must be in words, and must explain the concept as well as defining it.
3. $\sim$ 5-9 questions (some with multiple parts) based on labs and weather project information, as well as lecture content. Can use images, graphs, and calculations.
4. Choose to answer one longer question from a list which will include a few choices. You will be restricted to one side of paper, and point form is acceptable (as long as it is clear, cohesive and logically laid out).

For calculations, show all your work to get full marks. For instance, a numerical answer with little indication as to how it was determined will not be given marks. An equation sheet will be provided. To prepare for the final exam, review the kinds of questions from the midterms. Review your lecture notes, reading quizzes and in-class lecture activities. Review / redo all of your labs, including weather project materials. We have posted on moodle an equation sheet (to be included in exams) and a bank of practice questions for the course final exam.