Possible presentation topics for Meteo 465/565

Each student will do a 25-minute presentation on a topic that is connected somehow to the Middle Atmosphere. The presentations, which will be in the last few weeks of the semester, can be made either by PowerPoint or viewgraphs, whichever you prefer. The goals of the presentations are to let you explore aspects of the Middle Atmosphere that will not be covered by me in class and to enlighten the rest of the class in your discoveries.

I have listed 20 potential topics below. You are welcome to come up with others; just consult me before you start working on them.

1. Dobson’s ozone measurements

2. How Dobson and Brewer figured out stratospheric circulation

3. What is the minimum amount of stratospheric aerosol possible?

4. Ionospheric radio wave interferences – how they occur?

5. Satellite drag

6. The Montreal Protocol

7. How the aurora work

8. The tropical stratospheric tape recorder

9. The stratospheric effects in climate change

10. Could stratospheric dynamics act as a trigger for tropospheric dynamics?

11. Small extraterrestrial snowballs – a source of stratospheric water vapor?

12. Wave-breaking in the upper atmosphere

13. Atmospheric fluorine chemistry

14. Mesospheric noctilucent clouds

15. The exosphere and the solar wind

16. Volcanic injections into the stratosphere – effects on ozone?

17. Satellite measurements of stratospheric chemistry

18. How well do we understand stratospheric ozone loss?

19. Effects of the solar cycle on stratospheric chemistry and dynamics

20. Effects of supersonic aircraft on the ozone layer