CEE 589

Atmospheric Chemical & Phyiscal Processes

SPRING 2008

 

Instructor:  Prof. Tom Jobson

Email:  tjobson@wsu.edu

Office hours:  Dana 302A

 

 

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Syllabus

 

Lecture Schedule

 

Class Project

 

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REFERENCE PAPERS

Evolution of Earths Atmosphere

 

Information on spectroscopy and photolysis from “Chemistry of the Upper and Lower Atmopshere

Pitts_Chapter3

 

Photochemistry of Important Atmospheric gases

Pitts_Chapter4

 

Kinetics

Pitts_Chapter5

 

Big reference for rate constants, absorption cross sections, and quantum yields.

JPL_ChemicalKinetics_#15

 

This paper produced the Cl-acetone absorption cross sections and discusses the photolysis quantum yield values.

GRL2002-Burkholder.pdf

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LECTURE SLIDES

 

Stratosphere

 

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ASSIGNMENTS

 

These documents have the questions, scoring, and some extra notes for the solutions.

Assignment#1.pdf  

Assignment#2.pdf        

HW_3.pdf

HW_4.pdf

HW_5.pdf

 

chap1_solutions

chap2_solutions

HW3_solutions.pdf

HW4_solutions.pdf

 

Test_1_SPR2008_ANS.pdf

 

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USEFUL WEBSITES

 

General Chemical Physical Properties

NIST Chemistry Web Book

 

Rate constants for reactions

NIST Kinetics Database

 

Temperature and pressure as a function of altitude

US Standard Atmosphere Calculator

 

Absorption Cross Sections

UV - Vis Spectral Atlas

 

Photolysis Rates and Actinic Fluxes

NCAR TUV

 

Meteorology definitions

Glossary of Meteorology

 

 

Global Monitoring       ozone hole movies and global pollutant concentrations

 

      

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