July 27, 2016 Welcome back to our class. We'll be covering more on climate terminology and start our discussion on climate change. Reminders on your assignments for today include:
1. Part 1 of project due today
2. Part 2 of project due Friday
3. Discuss your most important question for the week with a group
4. Did you set up your Twitter account?

Here are today's powerpoint slides.

Key words mentioned in today's class include

• albedo
• light scattering
• Beer's law
• microscale
• anomaly

Speaking of temperature anomaly plots, here is the latest weekly sea surface temperature anomaly map of the Pacific Ocean. Currently there is a large area of below average water in the eastern Pacific that is thought to be trending toward a La Nina event later this year.

Here are some more remarks on your class project.
You may work in groups of no more than four
If you work in a group, your write-up must be original and your “solution” must be different than your team-mates
Start tweeting assignment today and include the hashtag and my Twitter name in the tweet.
#LaSalleClima16
@nmclimate