Instructors: Paul Ginoux (paul.ginoux@noaa.gov ) and Yi Ming (yi.ming@noaa.gov )
Place and Time: Guyot Hall Room 220; Tuesdays and Thursdays; 9:00-9:50AM
Schedule: 24 lectures; 5 sets of Home Work; 1 midterm+1 final
Objectives
The course is divided into 4 parts:
Part I. "Aerosol physics and chemistry" which presents an overview of the aerosol properties relevant to climate;
Part II. "Measurements and modeling of aerosol properties" which presents the key theoretical aspects of ground-based and satellite measurements of aerosol properties, and the mathematical formulation of aerosol transport used in climate centers (with GFDL model used as example);
Part III. "Cloud microphysics and dynamics" which is focusing on one of the largest uncertainty in climate change will present the key aspects of the interactions between aerosols and clouds;
Part IV. "Climate change" provides an overview of our present understanding of the effects of aerosols on climate as it is synthetized by the IPCC Fourth assessment report.
References
IPCC Chapt. II:P. Forster and V. Ramaswamy,
Chapter 2. Changes in Atmospheric Constituents and in Radiative
Forcing, in Climate Change 2007: The physical Science basis, Intergovernmental
panel on climate change, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2007.
pdf version ESSENTIAL REFERENCE:J. H. Seinfeld and S. N. Pandis, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics:
from air pollution to climate change, Wiley & Sons, New York, 1998.
AEROSOL MODELING: G. P. Brasseur, J. J. Orlando, and G. S. Tyndall, Atmospheric
chemistry and global change, Oxford University Press, New York, 1999.
AEROSOL SURFACE MEASUREMENTS:Pitts and B. J. Finlayson-Pitts, Atmospheric chemistry: Fundamentals and
experimental techniques, Wiley & Sons, New York, 1986.