Numbered exercises are from the ends of the Chapters in Hartmann (1994).

[1.3 means Chapter 1, Exercise 3.]

1. 8.3
2. 8.5
3. 8.6
4. (Use Chapters 3-6 of the IPCC Working Group I Report, Vinnikov and Grody (2003), and Vinnikov et al. (2006)  for the next 2 questions.)
   a. Describe the curve of global surface temperature for the past 140 years, including the land and ocean portions.
   b. What are the main uncertainties in this record? Explain each of the corrections that was applied to this curve, and how well these corrections were made.
   c. How does this record compare to the record for the continental United States? How can you explain the differences?
   d. How does this record compare to the record for the lower troposphere from satellites? How can you explain the differences?
   e. How does this record compare to the record for the past 2000 years?  Use Mann et al. (2008) to help answer this part.
5. Describe the changes of precipitation over the globe for the instrumental record. What are the problems inherent in these records?
6. 3.4
7. 3.5
8. 3.6
9. 3.7
10. 3.8