Syllabus

Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer of Planetary Atmospheres
Earth and Planetary Sciences 238, Spring 2014


January 28
Introduction - Atmospheric measurement programs
January 30
Basic Earth and atmospheric properties
February 4
Solar properties
February 6
Background information (elements of math and physics)
February 11
Blackbody radiation, Boltzmann statistics, temperature and equilibrium;
1st project assignment
February 13
Radiative transfer
February 18
Spectroscopy: Introduction and molecular rotation
February 20
Vibrational spectroscopy
February 25
1st project due: Presentations and discussion
February 27
Spectroscopy: Line shapes
March 4
Spectroscopic data bases (Dr. Laurence Rothman on HITRAN)
March 6
Electronic spectroscopy
March 11
Atmospheric scattering
March 13
Radiation and climate
March 15-March 23
Spring Recess
March 25
Atmospheres and instruments
March 27
Radiative transfer modeling; 2nd project assignment
April 1
Aerosols
April 3
Aerosols
April 8
Atmospheric retrieval methods
April 10
Applications to atmospheric measurements
April 15
Applications to atmospheric measurements
April 17
2nd project due: Presentations and discussion
April 22
Applications to atmospheric measurements
April 24
Applications to atmospheric measurements; Final project assignment
April 29
Applications to atmospheric measurements
May 1-May 8
Reading Period Final project presentations and discussion

Fortran tutorial (CM?)

Presentations (5 days)
Chris Miller: Satellite data
Gonzalo Gonzalez Abad: Fitting and applications to OMI
Atmospheric applications: Earth (Dr. Caroline Nowlan); Mars (Dr. Huiqun Wang)
Peter Zoogman: Physics studies for TEMPO
Xiong Liu: Ozone profile and tropospheric ozone retrievals from satellite UV measurements

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