old METEOROLOGY 620 SYLLABUS

METEOROLOGY 620

PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY OF THE ATMOSPHERE I

Text: A Short Course in Cloud Physics, Third Edition, by R.R. Rogers and M.K. Yau
(Pergamon Press, Elmsford, N.Y.), 1989.

Recommended: Chemistry of the Upper and Lower Atmosphere, Finlayson-Pitts and Pitts, 2000.

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, Seinfeld and Pandis, 1998.

Professor Russell Dickerson
Room 3413, Computer & Space Sciences Building
Phone(301) 405-5391
russ@atmos.umd.edu,
http://www.atmos.umd.edu/~russ/

Professor Zhanqing Li
Room 2335, Computer & Space Sciences Building
Phone (301) 405-6699.
qli@atmos.umd.edu,
http://www.atmos.umd.edu/~zli/

 

 

Tentative Course Outline - FALL, 2004


I. Atmospheric Thermodynamics
II. Aerosol Physics & Chemistry
III. Precipitation Physics
IV. Precipitation Processes
V. Weather Radar


Chapters 1-4
Outside Readings
Chapters 5-9
Chapters 10-15
Outside readings


6 classes
2 classes
10 classes
7 classes
4 classes




Lecture Notes
Caveat: For your convenience - no guarantees of accuracy!

Lecture 1

Lecture 2

Lecture 3

Lecture/Seminar on Soot

Lecture 4

Lecture 5A

Lecture 5B

Lecture 6 (Mix & Convection)

Ammonia

Lecture 7 (Dry Parcel)

Lecture 8 (Wet Parcel)

Lecture 9 (Slice Method)

Lecture 10 (Bubble Theory)

Old Final Exam

Nice Herry's Law Page from MPI

2002 August 15 00Z sounding doc

2002 August 15 00Z sounding image

Regular Examination Dates: October 12, December 7.

Final Examination 2004: Thursday, December 16, 1030am -1230 p.m.

Course grade will be determined by:

Homework
Exams
Final Exam
Term Paper
TOTAL


15%
40%
25%
20%
100%

 

*For the first day of class: bring a thermometer, and read Chapter 1 in Rogers & Yao. 


Due 9/14/04 HW #1 problems 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.6, and repeat 1.1 for the atmosphere of another planet or moon.

Due 9/28/04 HW #2 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. For the combustion of propane, C3H8, calculate the enthalpy of combustion, and the Gibbs free energy and entropy of the reaction at room temperature. What would be the equilibrium constant for this reaction if it were reversible?

Due 10/12/04 HW #3 problems 3.1, 4.3, 4.5 and 4.6 up to and including 4.6(b)4 but not 4.6(b)5 etc.

Due 11/02/04 HW #4 Rogers and Yao Problem 4.6 (remainder)

Due 11/04/04 HW #5 Read all the abstracts from the bibliography on convection and atmospheric chemistry. Prepare a two-page double spaced written summary of the major discoveries and implications of one of those papers. Use, where appropriate, the fundamentals concepts of physics and chemistry as you have learned this semester.

Prepared by Russell Dickerson & Z. Li (russ@atmos.umd.edu, zli@atmos.umd.edu ) - Last updated on October 25, 2004