office: Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Atomic and Molecular Physics Division Observatory P-252 60 Garden Street Mail stop 50 Cambridge, MA 02138-1516 phone: +1-617-495-7389 fax: +1-617-495-5439 e-mail: kchance@cfa.harvard.edu Office hours by appointment
January 24 |
Introduction - Atmospheric measurement programs |
January 26 |
Basic atmospheric properties |
January 31 |
Blackbody radiation, Boltzmann statistics, temperature and equilibrium |
February 2 |
Solar properties |
February 7 |
Introduction to radiative transfer; 1st project assignment |
February 9 |
Spectroscopy fundamentals |
February 14 |
Rotational spectroscopy |
February 16 |
Vibrational spectroscopy |
February 21 |
1st project presentations and discussion |
February 23 |
Line shapes |
February 28 |
Spectroscopic databases |
March 1 |
Ultraviolet and visible spectroscopy |
March 6 |
Detailed atmospheric properties |
March 8 |
Atmospheres and instruments |
March 10 - March 18 |
Spring Recess |
March 20 |
Atmospheric scattering |
March 22 |
Details of HITRAN and other databases; 2nd project assignment |
March 27 |
Aerosols |
March 29 |
Aerosols |
April 3 |
Radiative transfer modeling |
April 5 |
Radiative transfer modeling; retrieval methods |
April 10 |
Retrieval methods |
April 12 |
Ozone profile and tropospheric ozone retrievals from satellite UV measurements 2nd project due |
April 17 |
Spectrum fitting and applications to OMI and GOME satellite measurements of trace gases |
April 19 |
Additional topics; Final project assignment |
April 24 |
Atmospheric applications: Earth, Moon, Mars, and Venus |
April 26 - May 3 |
Reading Period; Final project presentations and discussion |