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Links to other web pages for classes offered in Atmospheric Sciences during the Winter Quarter 2005
Links to the UW course catalog with all the classes offered in Atmospheric Sciences 

Interactive web exercises
This is work in progress, and new links to exercises will be inserted below.  Let me know what you think!

About this page:
These exercises were developed with funding from a NASA New Investigator Program in Earth Science grant.  The web pages were written using ION Script (IDL On the Net), which allows to publish interactive IDL applications over a networked environment.  ION can call a set of IDL subroutines to generate the graphics based on user inputs, and it can also call fortran programs.  The exercises are run on a dedicated Linux web server (733 MHz Pentium III and 256 MB of memory).

 
Ozone and UV radiation
Impact of the ozone layer on UV radiation at various levels in the atmosphere. You can change the total amount of ozone and see the resulting effect on the penetration of UV radiation in the atmosphere.
Blackbody radiation
Calculate the flux distribution of a blackbody as a function of wavelength (Planck function). The user can interactively change the temperature and see the resulting effects on maximum wavelength and total energy enegy.
Assuming that the Sun's photosphere behaves as a blackbody,  find the temperature of a blackbody that will best match the observed solar radiation spectrum at the top of the atmosphere.
Stratospheric Ozone and the Chapman Mechanism
Calculation of the ozone profile in the stratosphere based on the 4 reactions from the Chapman mechanism. You can change the latitude and season of the calculation, and plot the reaction rates. 
Global distribution of tropospheric O3 and its precursors
Display global concentrations of tropospheric O 3 concentrations and of its precursors (CO, NOx, and related species). The monthly averaged concentrations are calculated with a global three-dimensional model of tropospheric chemistry, GEOS-CHEM .
Examine the concentrations of CO, a tracer of anthropogenic emissions, as well as its 'tagged' components according to emissions regions: N. America, Asian, and Europe.(This site provided operational forecasts during NOAA's ITCT 2002 aircraft mission.)  
Forecasts of CO, O3 and its precursors
INTEX-NA
Examine forecasts of CO, ozone and its precursors in the Northern Hemisphere.  This site will provide online display of GEOS-CHEM model forecasts during NASA's INTEX-NA during the summer of 2004.
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