Date
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Lecture
topic
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Required reading
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Assignt. Due
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WEEK 1
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Chapters 1, 2, 7
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M 3/31
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Introduction and course overview. Fundamentals. Atmospheric Radiation
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W 4/02
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Atmospheric
Radiation cont.
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WEEK 2
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Chapters 3, 4, 9; Chap 3 of S&P
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M 4/07
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Principles
of Chemistry; Theory of gas-phase reaction rates; Multiphase chemistry
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W 4/09
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Analysis
of reaction mechanisms; Box models; Lifetimes and transport timescales
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#1
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WEEK 3
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Chapter 10
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M 4/14
|
Stratospheric
chemistry. Ozone
and the Chapman mechanism; Catalytic loss cycles: HOx chemistry
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W 4/16
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Catalytic
loss cycles: NOy, Cly, Bry chemistry
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#2
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WEEK 4
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M 4/21
|
How
do we test photochemical models?
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W 4/23
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How do we test photochemical models? (cont.)
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#3
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WEEK 5
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Review
by S. Solomon
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|
M 4/28
|
Ozone
depletion: Polar ozone loss
|
|
paper discussion
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W 4/30
|
Mid-latitude
ozone loss; role of aerosol chemistry in the stratosphere
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WEEK 6
|
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M 5/05
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Tropospheric Chemistry. Oxidizing capacity of the atmosphere: the hydroxyl
radical,
|
|
#4
|
W 5/07
|
The Global budgets of CO and CH4
|
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WEEK
7
|
Chapter 11
|
|
M 5/12
|
Tropospheric
ozone
|
|
#5
|
W 5/14
|
Tropospheric
NOx; Tropospheric VOCs
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WEEK 8
|
Chapter
12
|
|
M 5/19
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Air
pollution and ozone smog
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W 5/21
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Paper discussion
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WEEK 9
|
Chapter 8
|
|
M 5/26
|
MEMORIAL
DAY – NO CLASS
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|
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W 5/28
|
Aerosols. Sources and sinks of aerosols. Sulfate aerosols.
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|
#6
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WEEK 10
|
Chapter 13
|
|
M 6/02
|
Aqueous
phase chemistry.
|
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W 6/04
|
Paper
presentations.
|
|
paper
due
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W 6/11
|
Paper
presentations.
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