Week 1 - Video Presentations to Motivate the Study of Atmospheric Chemistry
"London
Big Smoke 1952" (sample of student produced video from ATOC 3500)
Tropospheric Chemistry Part 1 (good basic lecture for motivating our dive into tropospheric chemistry)
"The Canary in the Coalmine - Why the Stratosphere is Still Relevant"
Tropospheric Chemistry Part 1 (good basic lecture for motivating our dive into tropospheric chemistry)
"The Canary in the Coalmine - Why the Stratosphere is Still Relevant"
Reading for Week 1 - Please review the layout of the Textbook
Chapter 1 - Measures
of Atmospheric Composition
Changing opinions of a weatherman
Some useful introductory material from my ATOC 3500 class
CO2 emissions from natural gas set to surpass those from coal in U.S.
Changing opinions of a weatherman
Some useful introductory material from my ATOC 3500 class
CO2 emissions from natural gas set to surpass those from coal in U.S.
Week 2 - Structure and Composition of the Atmosphere
Reading
for Week 2
Chapter
2 - Atmospheric Pressure
Chapter 4 - Atmospheric Transport
Some background material on pressure, hydrostatic balance, and lapse rates from ATOC 3500 class
National Academy of Sciences report on the Future of Atmospheric Chemistry Research
Chapter 4 - Atmospheric Transport
Some background material on pressure, hydrostatic balance, and lapse rates from ATOC 3500 class
National Academy of Sciences report on the Future of Atmospheric Chemistry Research
Week 3 - More General Circulation and Energy, Wavelength, and "action"
NEWS!!
Breakthrough
on Climate Change and International Agreements
General Circulation Lecture from ATOC 3500
Week 4 - KineticsGeneral Circulation Lecture from ATOC 3500
NEWS!! The cost of air pollution (Study by the World Bank)
On
Basic Kinetics (from ATOC 3500)
A "general" description of reaction rates (from Prof. Toohey's 1988 PhD dissertation)
A "general" description of reaction rates (from Prof. Toohey's 1988 PhD dissertation)
Week 5 - Examples of Atmospheric Chemistry Research
Prof. Jose Fuentes on "impacts of oxidation on foraging bees"
Press release on the story
Paper on topic
Anondo Mukherjee on PM2.5 and visibility in China
Background for particulate matter and visibility
Haze and Visibility (from Spring ATOC 3500)
Link to World Bank Study
Week 6 - Reaction mechanisms, simple models
News!! - WHO and the Climate and Clean Air Coalition
New York Times
More from WHO
Air pollution and diabetes
More on the Climate and Clean Air Coalition
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