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Lecture Notes



Lecture Notes

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(S): Lecture taught by Prof. Sara Seager

(M): Lecture taught by Dr. Robert McClatchey


LEC #TOPICSLECTURE NOTESNOTES
1Course overview and role of radiation in climate system (S and M)(PDF)

Lecture 1


- Global energy Budget
- Chemical composition and radiative effects
- Thermal structure of the atmosphere

2Physics of radiation (S)(PDF)

Lecture 2


- Thermodynamic concepts
- Energy levels in molecules

3Molecular spectroscopy (S)(PDF)

Lecture 3


- Absorbtion and emission rules
- Spectra (rotational, vibrational, electronic)
- Line shapes

4-5Equation of radiative transfer (M)(PDF)#

Lecture 4


- Derivation - special cases



Lecture 5


- Fluxes and simple solutions - radiative equilibrium approximation

6-8Modeling atmospheric transmission and emission (M)(PDF)#

Lecture 6


- The HITRAN data base and applications



Lecture 7


- Band models (weak line, strong line, random, regular, k Distribution)



Lecture 8


- MODTRAN - R.M.

9-10

Scattering of radiation by molecules and particles (M)

Multiple scattering (M)

(PDF)#

Lecture 9


- Single scattering
- Size distributions
- Mie scattering (Exercise 4)



Lecture 10


- Discrete ordinates

11-14Remote sensing (M)(PDF)#

Lecture 11


- Scattered sunlight (observations from ground, from satellite)
- Retrieval of gases, particulate information, surface properties



Lecture 12


- Thermal emission
- Weighting functions
- Temperature and water vapor retrieval
- Limb scanning



Lecture 13


- Application of MODTRAN to remote sensing



Lecture 14


- Miscellaneous topics and summary (microwave remote sensing, active remote sensing - LIDAR and RADAR)


 








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