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Class Meeting Times and Location: Mondays and Wednesdays from 9:00 to 10:20 am in Room 610 in the Atmospheric Sciences Building
Instructor:Lyatt Jaeglé
e-mail: jaegle@atmos.washington.edu
Phone: (206) 685-2679
Office: Room 306 in the Atmospheric
Sciences Building
Graduate course providing an introduction to the physical and chemical processes determining the composition of the atmosphere and its implications for climate, ecosystems, and human welfare. We will look at the science behind several important global environmental problems: Stratospheric ozone depletion, tropospheric ozone and photochemical smog, oxidizing capacity of the atmosphere, acid rain, and global warming.
Office hours: After class or send me e-mail to set up a time.
Prerequisites: ATM S 501 or permission of instructor.Grading policy:
Homeworks, 60%; Final Exam, 30%; Class participation, 10%.Textbook: Atmospheric Chemistry and Global Change, G.P. Brasseur, J.J. Orlando, and G.S.
Tyndall (eds.), Oxford University Press, 1999.
Other useful textbooks:
Introduction
to Atmospheric Chemistry, by
D.J. Jacob, Princeton University
Press, 1999.
Chemistry of the Lower and Upper Atmosphere , by Finlayson-Pitts and Pitts, Academic Press, 1999.
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics: from Air pollution to Climate change , by J.H. Seinfeld and S.N. Pandis, Wiley, 1998.
Chemistry of the Natural Atmosphere, P. Warneck, Academic Press, 1999.
Atmospheric Change, T.E.
Graedel & P.J. Crutzen, Freeman, 1992.
Chemistry of Atmospheres: An Introduction to the Chemistry of the Atmospheres of Earth, the Planets, and their Satellites, R.P. Wayne, Oxford University Press, 2000.
Topics covered:
1) Introduction and Fundamentals (1.5
weeks). Atmospheric
Chemistry and the Earth System. Photochemistry; Theory of gas-phase
reaction rates; Multiphase chemistry; Analysis of reaction mechanisms;
Timescales; Box models.
2) Stratospheric chemistry (2.5 weeks). Stratospheric ozone and the Chapman
mechanism; Catalytic loss cycles (HOx, NOy and
halogen chemistry); Polar and mid-latitude ozone depletion; Role of
aerosol chemistry in the stratosphere.
3) Tropospheric Chemistry (4 weeks). Oxidizing capacity of the atmosphere;
Tropospheric ozone; Tropospheric NOx and hydrocarbons; Air
pollution and ozone smog; Tropospheric Sulfur and Halogen Chemistry.
4) Tools (1 week). Observational methods: Instruments and
platforms. Modeling: photochemical models, global modeling, inverse
modeling.
5) Atmospheric
chemistry and Climate (1 week). Global warming and
atmospheric chemistry, what are the issues?
Last Updated:
03/26/2007