TEACHING

ATS 621: ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY
ATS 762: BIOSPHERE-CHEMISTRY-CLIMATE INTERACTIONS
ATS 681: INTERPRETING SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS OF ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION
ATS PROGRAMMING SHORT COURSE
OTHER
The current Course Schedule for the Department of Atmospheric Science is available here

ATS621: Atmospheric Chemistry

FALL 2011

Objectives:
  • To provide students with a familiarity of the basic concepts of tropospheric and stratospheric chemistry
  • To provide an overview of current topics in atmospheric chemistry research
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Text: Introduction to Atmospheric Chemistry, by Daniel J. Jacob.

Instructor: Colette Heald (heald@atmos.colostate.edu)

Teaching Assistant: Bonne Ford (bonne@atmos.colostate.edu)
Office Hours: Tues (1-2pm), Wed (3-4pm) in Atmospheric Chemistry Conference Room

Lecture Notes: To be posted the night before each class.
  • Lecture 1: Introduction
  • Lecture 2: Chemistry Basics
  • Lecture 3: Atmospheric Pressure
  • Lecture 4: Simple Models
  • Lecture 5: Atmospheric Transport
  • Lecture 6: Biogeochemical Cycles
  • Lecture 7: Carbon Cycle
  • Lecture 8: Radiation and the Greenhouse Effect
  • Lecture 9: Photochemistry
  • Lecture 10: Stratospheric Chemistry I
  • Lecture 11: Stratospheric Chemistry II
  • Lecture 12: Tropospheric Chemistry I
  • Lecture 13: Midterm Review ,
  • Lecture 14: Tropospheric Chemistry II
  • Lecture 15: Air Quality I
  • Lecture 16: Air Quality II
  • Lecture 17: Atmospheric Aerosols I
  • Lecture 18: Atmospheric Aerosols II
  • Lecture 19: Aqueous Chemistry I
  • Lecture 20: Aqueous Chemistry II
  • Lecture 21: Acid Rain
  • Lecture 22: Health & Observations
  • Lecture 23: Review for Exam #2
Acknowledgements to Daniel Jacob and Sonia Kreidenweis for class material.

Homework Assignments (with due dates):
  • Homework #1 (due Sept 2)
  • Homework #2 (due Sept 8)
  • Homework #3 (due Sept 15)
  • Homework #4 (due Sept 22)
  • Homework #5 (due Sept 29)
  • Homework #6 (due Oct 20, deferred to Oct 25)
  • Homework #7 (due Nov 3)
  • Homework #8 (due Nov 15)


ATS762: Biosphere-Chemistry-Climate Interactions

SPRING 2009

Objectives:
  • Explore the sensitivity of the climate system to the chemical composition of the atmosphere and the connections to land processes and feedbacks.
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Text: IPCC WG1 AR4 Report, papers from the recent literature

Instructor:Colette Heald (heald@atmos.colostate.edu)

Lecture Notes: posted by noon on Tuesday
  • Introduction to ATS762
  • Lecture 1: Setting the stage..
  • Lecture 2: BVOC
  • Lecture 3: SOA/PBAP
  • Lecture 4: Nitrogen
  • Lecture 5: Wildfires, deforestation and land use change
  • Lecture 6: Carbon cycle (Guest: Scott Denning)
  • Lecture 7: Ocean biogeochemistry (Guest: Taka Ito)
  • Lecture 8: Sulfate, DMS and the CLAW hypothesis
  • Lecture 9: Methane
  • Lecture 10: Air quality and climate
  • Lecture 11: Stratospheric chemistry
  • Lecture 12: Atmospheric transport
  • Lecture 13: Hydrological cycle (Guest: Chris Kummerow)
  • Week 14: Geoengineering (no slides)
Final Bibliography of Literature Read in Class:


ATS 681: Interpreting Satellite Observations of Atmospheric Composition

SPRING 2010

Objectives:
  • To provide students with an overview of techniques used to measure tropospheric composition from space and the interpretation and application of these datasets.
  • To develop analysis code to examine and interpret current satellite datasets.
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Instructor: Colette L. Heald (heald@atmos.colostate.edu)

Lecture Notes:
  • Lecture 1: Introduction
  • Lecture 2: Basic Radiative Transfer and Satellite Orbits
  • Lecture 3: Remote Sensing and the Inverse Problem
  • Lectures 4-6: Infrared Measurements (Lecture #4 is slides 1-14, Lecture #5 is slides 15-29)
  • Lectures 7-9: UV/visible Measurements (Lecture #7 is slides 1-16, Lecture #8 is slides #16-33, Lecture #9 is slides #34-45)
  • Lectures 10-12: Aerosol Measurements (Lecture #10 is slides 1-17, Lecture #11 is slides 18-35, Lecture #12 is slides 36-50),
  • Lecture 13: Other satellite datasets
  • Lecture 14: The future of satellite observations (guest lecture: David Edwards, NCAR)

Lab Assignments
  • Assignment #1 (due Feb 8)
  • Assignment #2 (due Feb 15)
  • Assignment #3 (due Feb 22)
  • Assignment #4 (due Mar 8)
  • Assignment #5 (due Mar 15)
  • Assignment #6 (due Mar 29)
  • Assignment #7 (due Apr 5)
  • Assignment #8 (due Apr 12)
  • Assignment #9 (due Apr 19)
  • Assignment #10 (due Apr 26)

Thanks to Kim Strong (University of Toronto), Andreas Richter (University of Bremen), Daniel Jacob (Harvard University), and Solene Turquety (CNRS) for class material.

ATS Informal Programming Short Course

FALL 2009

Objectives:
  • To strengthen the programming backgrounds of first-year (and in some cases post-first-year) graduate students in the department.
  • Provide a general overview of programming concepts, and specific introduction to Matlab, IDL and FORTRAN.
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Faculty Coordinator: Colette Heald (heald@atmos.colostate.edu)

Course Website: www.atmos.colostate.edu/programming


Additional Lectures

ATS737: Guest Lecture on Observations of Atmospheric Composition from Space