Atmospheric Chemistry


Welcome to the course web page.
Throughout the semester I will be posting class material that I covered the previous week on these pages.
I will also post the exam results here

So stay posted!


Class Syllabus (changed!)
Term paper assignments

Schedule:

1st week: Electrons and chemical bonding, LCAO-MO theory

2nd week: MO theory and usage in organic chemistry


3rd week: MO theory for atmospheric molecules; spectroscopy

4th week: Oxygen (and Ozone) photochemistry; Kinetic Gas Theory I

5th week: Kinetic Gas Theory II; Basic (photo-) chemistry in the Troposphere

6th week: Basic (photo-) chemistry in the Troposphere II


7th week: Tropospheric Cycling of CO, CH4, and HOx

 

8th week: Tropospheric NOx and NOy Cycling I

 

9th week: Tropospheric NOx and NOy Cycling II, Relationships between NOx, HOx, and Ozone

 

10th week: Photochemical Air Pollution, I

 

11th week: Photochemical Air Pollution II, hydrocarbon oxidation mechanisms

 

12th week: Stratospheric Chemistry

 

13th week: Sulfur Chemistry