Atmosphere and Climate: Assignment Instructions

This assignment provides hands-on experience compiling climatological data, analyzing weather maps, and synthesizing information learned in class.

In the interest of academic integrity, each student has been assigned to analyze the climate of a different city. You will receive an individual email with your city assignment.

If you have any questions, please ask any time by email, or come see me in person during office hours, or email me to set up an appointment outside of office hours (suggest a couple of specific times that fit your schedule).

The entire assignment may be completed by hand, and then submitted electronically to Blackboard.

1. Download the assignment worksheet from Blackboard and print all 4 assignment pages. The worksheet is in the Assignment section, in the same place you found these instructions.
2. Hand-write all of your answers directly on the assignment pages in the appropriate spaces. Make sure your name and ID are on every page.
3. Scan your hand-written pages and compile them in one PDF file.

Other formats will not be accepted due to the range of technical problems that can arise: the specific format is not obvious and opening the file is a problem; no guarantee I have the software that will read the format you sent me; the way my viewing software displays your submission to me is not the way you intended it to look; etc. etc.

1. 1. If your scanner can create PDFs directly, great!
   2. If your scanner only creates image files, create a Word document. Paste each scanned page image into separate pages within the Word document. Resize each page image so that it fills one page in the Word document. Save or export the document as a PDF file.
   3. If you’re not sure what a PDF document is, or you’re not sure if you have tools to make one, get early technical help from a friend, family member, or IT Services!
2. Submit your PDF file via the Assignment page on Blackboard.

Assignments will only be accepted via Blackboard (if you absolutely cannot use Blackboard and wish to hand in a paper copy, you must hand it in to me personally on the day the assignment is due before I leave at 4:00pm). Assignments emailed to me will not be graded.

Your assignment must be submitted on Blackboard as one complete PDF file. Do not post each page as a separate PDF file.

Graphs created with Excel or any other type of computer graphing program will not be graded. They must be written by hand (and legible).

Typed answers will not be graded. They must be written by hand (and legible).

Don’t leave the assignment until the last minute! Issues related to technological problems (computers, printers, scanners, software, Internet/network lags, etc.) are not acceptable excuses for late submissions.

If you’re not sure how to scan pages into a PDF file, or you’re not sure how to upload a file as an assignment submission, make sure that you test out how to do it well before the assignment is due. You can even do this before you start working on the assignment. Make sure you leave yourself plenty of time before the submission deadline, so if something goes wrong you have time to figure it out before the deadline passes.

• Make sure you find access to a scanner or scanning service beforehand.
• Try out the scanner ahead of time to make sure you can operate it.
• Test out the process: grab a few pieces of paper (lecture notes, scrap paper, whatever) and go through the process of scanning them and compiling them into a PDF file.
• Open the PDF file and carefully check whether it looks exactly the way you want it to. If it doesn’t, make note of what you need to do differently, and try it again.