AOSC 620Physics and Chemistry of the Atmosphere IText: Physics of the Atmosphere and Climate,
second edition, by Murry L. Salby Chemistry of the Upper and Lower Atmosphere, Finlayson-Pitts and Pitts, 2000. Recommended: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, Seinfeld and Pandis, 2006. A Short Course in Cloud Physics, Third Edition, by R.R. Rogers and M.K. Yau Professor Russell Dickerson
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Course Outline Fall 2017 |
I. Atmospheric Thermodynamics |
Salby Chapters 1-2 |
2 classes |
Lecture notes
Caveat: For your convenience only - I reserve the right to update the lectures until they are delivered.
For the first day of class please read Salby Chapter 1
Part I. Basic Atmospheric Thermodynamics and Chemistry
Lecture 1, Thermodynamics of Dry Air
Part II. Introduction to Atmospheric Chemistry
Lecture 6, Tropospheric Ozone
Lecture 11, Spectroscopy and Photochemistry II
Lecture 12a, Stratospheric Ozone
Lecture 12b, The Ozone Hole Lecture 12c, Nitrous Oxide, N2O Lecture 13, Aerosol Physics & Chemistry Lecture 14, Aerosol Physics & Chemistry II Lecture 15, Reactive Nitrogen Lecture 16, Air Quality and ClimateOptional Lectures
Cloud Nucleation
Regular Examination Dates: October 12, November 21, 2017.
Term Paper Due: Thursday, November 30, 2017
Final Examination 2017:
Saturday, December 16, 2017, 10:30am-12:30pm,
unless there is 100% agreement to move it.
Course grade will be determined by:
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Homework
For 2017, there will be options from Salby's book.Due 9/14/17 HW #1 Rogers and Yau problems 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.6, (see handouts) and
repeat 1.1 for the atmosphere of another planet or moon. You may substitute Salby's problem 1.6 for R&Y 1.1. If you do other problems I will grade them for possible extra credit.
Due 9/28/17 HW #2
Atmospheric and oceanic chemical thermodynamics.
Due 10/10/17 Topic and Bibliography for Term Paper Due.
Due 10/10/17 HW #3 Rogers and Yau problems 2.2, 2.4 (or 2.5); for 2.4 you may use a skew T
diagram to estimate the constant and n to test for consistency.
Due 10/26/17 HW #4 Salby problems 5.1 & 5.2. Rogers and Yau problems 4.3, 4.5, & 4.6.
Due 11/16/17 HW #5
HW5 In Progress
See Finlayson and Pitts or the JPL compendium (below)
for cross sections and quantum yields.
Useful Information
Old Final Exam
Nice Henry's Law Page from MPI
Chemical Kinetics and Photochemical Data for Use in Atmospheric Studies
from NASA/JPL
Ozone Criteria Document from EPA
2002 August 15 00Z sounding doc
2002 August 15 00Z sounding imagePrepared by Russell Dickerson (rrd@umd.edu ) - Last updated on August 2017