ATOC 3500 - Air
Chemistry
and Pollution
Spring 2016
Syllabus
Class email archive
Problem
Archive (Problems 1-19)
Guidelines for
10 minute video projects (new!)
Midterm
topic summary (Note - Midterm will be Tuesday, March 1 - open notes)
Midterm key
For March 29/March 31 (due Friday, April 8)
Problem
20 ( answers )
Problem
21 ( answers )
AA
For April 5/7 (due Tuesday, April 12)
Problem
22 ( answers )
Problem
23 ( answers )
Last few problems, for completeness (practice for final) - answers
provided
Problem
24 ( answers )
New - Video projects!!
Mitchell - Biomass
Burning (from March 29)
My - Acid
Rain in Sweden (from March 31)
Jason - Acid
Rain in U.S. (from April 5)
Lindsey - Aerosol
Indirect Effects (from April 5)
Meg - Biofuels
(from April 7)
Dillon - Chemistry
of Mars (from April 7)
Colin - Aviation
Emissions (from April 7)
Jessica - Carbon
dioxide and ocean chemistry (from April 14)
Chris and Hillary - Methane
(from April 19)
Madeline - Volcanoes
(from April 19)
Morgan - Mining
and Solar Panels (from April 21)
Jordan - Atmospheric Dust
(from April 21)
Jessa - Agriculture
and air composition (from April 26)
Young - Radioactivity
(from April 28)
Materials to review for class
Lecture
1
Lecture
2
Lecture
3
Lecture
4
(for week 4 - "snow week")
Video on
atmospheric chemistry (slides from video available
here )
Lecture
5
Week 6
Lecture
6a
Lecture
7a (Weeks 6 and 7)
Lecture
7b (Week 7)
Lecture
7c (Week 7, and help for Problem 15)
Midterm - March 1, 2016
Lecture
8 (Week 8)
Video (Prof.
Toohey lecture on Stratospheric Ozone at the State Dept., 2012)
Lecture
9a (Week 9) (on the ozone hole)
Lecture
9b (Week 9) (on aerosols, haze, and
visibility)
Lecture
10a (Week 10) (on urban air pollution control
strategies)
Lecture
12 (Week 12) (old lecture on acid rain)
Additional reading material by subject/week
On
mixing ratios (Week 1)
Impacts of
Air Pollution (throughout semester)
On
pressure
and temperature (Week 2)
On
stability and transport/circulation (Week 3)
News
story on air pollution in Europe (Week 4)
U.S.
Supreme Court holds up new EPA carbon rule (Week 5)
Chemical
Kinetics (Jacob)
New
High Court Dynamic for EPA carbon rule (Week 6)
Simple
Models (Jacob) (for Problem 14)
Oxidation
in the atmosphere (Jacob) (Week 6)
On
methane, box models, and OH (Weeks 5 and 6, additional material)
Stratospheric
Ozone (Jacob) (Week 8)
Aerosols
(Jacob) (Week 9)
Ozone
Pollution and Control (Week 10)
Acid
Rain (Week 11/12 - projects)
Background
Excellent videos from previous students
London
Smog
Climate
Change and Aerosols
Methane
and Colorado Regulations
Polar
Stratospheric Clouds
This page was last updated on May 1, 2016