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Write full Lecture 6 content on clouds, weather, and climate, add 7 figures
- 8 sections (~6500 words): cloud formation, Clausius-Clapeyron derivation, clouds across the solar system, atmospheric dynamics, geostrophic balance, weather/storms, faint young Sun paradox, carbonate-silicate cycle - 6 named equations including boxed Clausius-Clapeyron result - 7 figures from NASA and Wikimedia Commons (Venus UV, Jupiter cloud layers, Hadley cells, Jupiter GRS, Mars dust storm, Saturn hexagon, C-Si cycle) - 5 new BibTeX entries: Walker1981, Feulner2012, SanchezLavega2011, Showman2020, Ingersoll1969 - Update L6 status to "Draft complete (figures added)" and correct blackboard derivation topic to Clausius-Clapeyron Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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year = {2022},
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doi = {10.1146/annurev-astro-052920-125632}
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% ==========================================
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% Lecture 6: Atmospheres II — Clouds, Weather, & Climate
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% ==========================================
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@article{Walker1981,
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author = {Walker, James C. G. and Hays, P. B. and Kasting, James F.},
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title = {A negative feedback mechanism for the long-term stabilization of {Earth}'s surface temperature},
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journal = {Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans},
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volume = {86},
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number = {C10},
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pages = {9776--9782},
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year = {1981},
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doi = {10.1029/JC086iC10p09776}
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}
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@article{Feulner2012,
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author = {Feulner, Georg},
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title = {The faint young {Sun} problem},
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journal = {Reviews of Geophysics},
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volume = {50},
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number = {2},
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pages = {RG2006},
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year = {2012},
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doi = {10.1029/2011RG000375}
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}
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@book{SanchezLavega2011,
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author = {S{\'a}nchez-Lavega, Agust{\'\i}n},
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title = {An Introduction to Planetary Atmospheres},
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year = {2011},
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publisher = {CRC Press},
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address = {Boca Raton},
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doi = {10.1201/9781439894668}
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}
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@article{Showman2020,
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author = {Showman, Adam P. and Tan, Xianyu and Zhang, Xi},
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title = {Atmospheric Circulation of Brown Dwarfs and Jupiter- and Saturn-like Planets: Zonal Jets, Long-term Variability, and {QBO}-Type Oscillations},
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journal = {Space Science Reviews},
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volume = {216},
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number = {8},
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pages = {139},
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year = {2020},
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doi = {10.1007/s11214-020-00758-8}
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}
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@article{Ingersoll1969,
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author = {Ingersoll, Andrew P.},
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title = {The Runaway Greenhouse: A History of Water on {Venus}},
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journal = {Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences},
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volume = {26},
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number = {6},
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pages = {1191--1198},
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year = {1969},
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doi = {10.1175/1520-0469(1969)026<1191:TRGAHI>2.0.CO;2}
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- Cloud formation: condensation, nucleation, and cloud types across the solar system
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- Venus: runaway greenhouse, sulfuric acid clouds, super-rotation
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- **Blackboard derivation (~10 min):** Derive the planetary effective temperature from energy balance (absorbed stellar flux = emitted thermal flux), then add a single-layer greenhouse atmosphere to show how T_surface > T_eff
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- **Blackboard derivation (~10 min):** Derive the Clausius-Clapeyron equation from thermodynamic phase equilibrium — starting from equal Gibbs free energies on the coexistence curve, obtain P_sat(T) = P_ref exp[−L_v/R_v(1/T − 1/T_ref)], and apply to predict cloud condensation across the solar system
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- Mars: thin CO₂ atmosphere, dust storms, seasonal CO₂ cycle
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- Titan: methane hydrological cycle, organic haze
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- Giant planet atmospheres: banded structure, zones and belts, composition
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| 3 | Planetary heat & energy transport | Draft complete (figures added) | High |
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| 5 | Atmospheres I | Draft complete (figures added) | High |
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| 6 | Atmospheres II | Draft complete (figures added) | High |
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| 9 | Rocky planets: Earth & Venus | Not started | Medium |

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