Writing assignment 1 nearly ready.

I will be setting up your Writing Assignment 1 later tonight inside Webcourses. For now you can start looking through the readings, double checking vocabulary terms you do not recognize, diagrams and photos etc.

1. "Climate science: The long summer begins,"
   Quirin Schiermeier, Nature 454, 266-269 (2008) | doi:10.1038/454266a
   This is the overview article.
   


2. "What drove the dramatic retreat of arctic sea ice during summer 2007?"
   Zhang, J., Lindsay, R., Steele, M. & Schweiger, A., Geophysical Research Letters 35, L11505 (2008).
   Go to Fig. 4a-4d and its caption, and eyeball these carefully -- because the guts of the assignment will be centered here. Just the figures for now; skip the bulk of the article.

Full instructions, including the writing tasks, will be in Webcourses tonight. I will announce here when the full assignment is ready.