Course schedule

Date

Lecture topic

Required reading

Assignt. Due

 

WEEK 1 

Chapters 1, 2, 7

 

M  3/31

Introduction and course overview. Fundamentals. Atmospheric Radiation

 

W  4/02

Atmospheric Radiation cont.

 

 

 

WEEK 2

Chapters 3, 4, 9; Chap 3 of S&P

 

M  4/07

Principles of Chemistry; Theory of gas-phase reaction rates; Multiphase chemistry

 

W  4/09

Analysis of reaction mechanisms; Box models; Lifetimes and transport timescales

 

 #1

 

WEEK 3

Chapter 10

 

M  4/14

Stratospheric chemistry. Ozone and the Chapman mechanism; Catalytic loss cycles: HOx chemistry

 

W  4/16

Catalytic loss cycles: NOy, Cly, Bry chemistry

 

 #2

 

WEEK 4

 

 

M  4/21

How do we test photochemical models?

 

 

W  4/23

How do we test photochemical models? (cont.)

 

 #3

 

WEEK 5

Review by S. Solomon 

 

M  4/28

Ozone depletion: Polar ozone loss

 

paper discussion

W  4/30

Mid-latitude ozone loss; role of aerosol chemistry in the stratosphere

 

 

 

WEEK 6

 

 

M  5/05

Tropospheric Chemistry. Oxidizing capacity of the atmosphere: the hydroxyl radical,

 

 #4

W  5/07

The Global budgets of CO and CH4

 

 

WEEK 7

Chapter 11

 

M  5/12

Tropospheric ozone

 

 #5

W  5/14

Tropospheric NOx; Tropospheric VOCs

 

 

 

WEEK 8

Chapter 12

 

M  5/19

Air pollution and ozone smog

 

 

W  5/21

Paper discussion

 

 

 

WEEK 9

Chapter 8

 

M  5/26

MEMORIAL DAY – NO CLASS

 

 

W  5/28

Aerosols. Sources and sinks of aerosols. Sulfate aerosols.

 

#6

 

WEEK 10

Chapter 13

 

M  6/02

Aqueous phase chemistry.

 

 

W  6/04

Paper presentations.

 

paper due

W  6/11 

Paper presentations.

 

 

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 Last Updated:
03/30/2003

Contact the instructor at: jaegle@atmos.washington.edu