General Information
Instructor: Qiang Fu
Office: ATG 308
Phone: 206-685-2070
Email: qfu@atmos.washington.edu
Grading:
30% Assignments (8 assignments)
10% Quiz One (Oct. 15)
25% Mid-Term (Oct. 29)
10% Quiz Two (Nov. 19)
25% Final Exam (Dec 15; 2:30-4:20pm; ATG 310C)
Office Hours: 12:30 – 1:00 M-F (after class)
Nov 11: Veteran's Day
Nov 25: Thanksgiving
Dec 10: Last Day of Instruction
A. Radiation Transfer: Sept. 29 - Oct. 31
Text: "An Introduction to Atmospheric Radiation" by K.N. Liou; Class notes
Introduction and basic terminology and concepts:
The importance and relevance of the subject in the atmospheric
sciences; The role of radiative transfer in the global energy
balance; spectrum of radiation; solid angle, radiance
and irradiance; scattering, absorption, and emission.
Thermal emission and simple aspects of radiative transfer:
Blackbody radiation; Kirchhoff's law; Greenhouse effect;
absorption line formation and broadenings; Beer-Bouguer-Lambert law;
Schwarzschild's equation; plane-parallel atmospheres; remote sensing
applications.
Absorption process in the atmosphere: Absorption spectrum of the
atmosphere, HITRAN data base; band models; solar heating rates;
IR cooling rates; photochemical processes and O3 layer; CO2 and
climate.
Solar radiation at the TOA: The sun as an energy source; the Earth's
orbit about the sun (seasonal effects and orbital effects); solar
spectrum and solar constant; solar insolation. Light scattering and
solar radiative transfer in the atmosphere.
Earth radiation budget at the top of the atmosphere and at the surface;
Cloud radiative forcing
B. Boundary-Layer Meteorology: Nov. 1 - Dec. 10
Text: "Introduction to Micrometeorology" by S. Pal Arya; Class Notes.
Energy Budget Near the Surface.
Soil Temperature and Heat Transfer.
Air Temperature and Humidity in the PBL.
Wind Distribution in the PBL.
Atmospheric Turbulence and Turbulent Kinetic Energy and PBL Momentum
Equations.
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