AOSC 2620: Physics and Chemistry of the Atmosphere I - Fall 2017

Teaching Assistant:Phillip Stratton

 

        Email: [protected e-mail]

        Office: 2107 Jull Hall

        Office hours: Friday 11:00 - 12:00 or by appointment

        Homepage: www.atmos.umd.edu/~pstratto/

        When emailing, please start all emails with "AOSC 620:" in the subject line (without quotations) and be sure to sign your name at the end of the email.

 

Class Schedule (may be subject to change): Last updated September 19, 2017

 

   

Date Description Assignments Due Useful Documents
08/29 Thermodynamics of Dry Air
08/31 Thermodynamics of Moist Air
09/05 Chemical Thermodynamics
09/07 Chemical Thermodynamics and Clausius Clapeyron
09/12 Basic Ocean Chemistry
09/14 Thermodiagrams I Homework #1 Skew-T Mastery (MetED)
Skew-T Mastery (module download)
09/19 Thermodiagrams II
09/21 Saturated Temperature Definitions
09/26 Stability
09/28 Homework #2
10/03
10/05
10/10 Homework #3
Bibliography for Term Paper
10/12 Exam #1
10/17 Tropospheric Ozone
10/19 Kinetics I
10/24 Kinetics II
Kinetics III
10/26 Steady State Homework #4
10/31 Spectroscopy & Photochemistry I
11/02 Stratospheric Ozone
11/07 Spectroscopy & Photochemistry II
11/09
11/14
11/16 Ozone Hole Homework #5
NASA Chemical Kinetics
11/21 Exam #2
11/23 Thanksgiving Recess!!
11/28 N2O
Ammonia and other Reactive N Compounds
11/30 Aerosol Physics & Chemistry
12/05
12/07
12/16 Final Exam