ATOC/ASTR 5560  Tentative Schedule for Fall 2000
Date		Lectures and Computer Modeling Labs						Required Reading
28-Aug	Lecture 1	Introduction&Logistics
		Many roles of radiative transfer processes in the atmosphere
30-Aug	Lecture 2	Basic radiometric quantities. The Beer-Bouguer-Lambert law.						L80: 1.1
		Concepts of scattering, absorption, and emission.
1-Sep	Lab 1	Computer modeling laboratory
4-Sep		NO CLASS : Labor day
6-Sep	Lecture 3	Blackbody radiation. Main laws.						L80:1.2; 1.4;
		Simple aspects of radiative transfer.
8-Sep	Lab 2	Computer modeling laboratory
11-Sep	Lecture 4	Composition and structure of the atmosphere.						L80:2.1-2.3; 3.1;
		Basic properties of radiatively active species.
13-Sep	Lecture 5	Terrestrial infrared radiative processes. Part 1:						L80: 1.3; 4.1; 4.2;
		Gaseous absorption/emission: Concepts of a spectral line
		and a band. Line shapes. Absorption coefficient and transmittance.
15-Sep	Lab 3	Computer modeling laboratory
18-Sep	Lecture 6	Terrestrial infrared radiative processes. Part 2:
		Gaseous absorption/emission: Line-by-line approach.
		K-distribution approximations.
20-Sep	Lecture 7	Terrestrial infrared radiative processes. Part 3:						L80:4.5; 4.6
		Gaseous absorption/emission: Band models.
		Curtis-Godson Approximation.
22-Sep	Lab 4	Computer modeling laboratory
25-Sep	Lecture 8	Terrestrial infrared radiative processes. Part 4:						L80: 1.4.4; 4.3; 4.7
		Infrared radiation transfer in the plane-parallel atmosphere.
		Radiative heating/cooling rates
27-Sep	Lecture 9	Absorption by atmopsheric gases in UV and visible						L80: 3.2-3.4
29-Sep	Lab 5	Computer modeling laboratory
2-Oct	Lecture 10	Ground-based and aircraft measurements at IR wavelengths.						Le93: 18.3
4-Oct		NO CLASS
6-Oct		NO CLASS
9-Oct	Lecture 11	IR satellite remote sensing.						L80: 7.3
		Concepts of inversion problems.
11-Oct	Lecture 12	Review for Exam 1: IR radiative transfer processes
13-Oct		Mid-term Exam 1
16-Oct	Lecture 13	Scattering. Part 1:						L80: 1.1.4; 5.1-5.3; 5.5
		Main concepts. Stokes matrix. Polarization.
		Scattering by gases.
18-Oct	Lecture 14	Scattering. Part 2:						L80:5.4
		Scattering and absorption by aerosol particles.
20-Oct	Lab 6	Computer modeling laboratory
23-Oct	Lecture 15	Scattering. Part 3:						L80:5.6-5.7
		Scattering by water and ice cloud particles.
25-Oct	Lecture 16	In situ measurements of aerosol optics						Le93: 22.2.1
27-Oct	Lab 7	Computer modeling laboratory
30-Oct	Lecture 17	Principles of multiple scattering in the atmosphere						L80:6.1
		Radiative transfer equation in a plan-parallel atmosphere
1-Nov	Lecture 18	Methods for solving the radiative transfer equation. Part 1:						L80:6.2
		Two-stream approximations.
3-Nov	Lab 8	Computer modeling laboratory
6-Nov	Lecture 19	Methods for solving the radiative transfer equation. Part 2:						L80:6.5
		Effects of surface reflection on the atmospheric radiation field.
8-Nov	Lecture 20	Methods for solving the radiative transfer equation. Part 3:						L80:6.3
		Discrete-ordinate method.
10-Nov	Lab 9	Computer modeling laboratory
13-Nov	Lecture 21	Methods for solving the radiative transfer equation. Part 4:						L80:6.4-6.6
		Principles of invariance. Adding method.
15-Nov	Lecture 22	Methods for solving the radiative transfer equation. Part 5:
		Monte-Carlo method.
17-Nov	Lab 10	Computer modeling laboratory
20-Nov	Lecture 23	Review for Exam 1: Solar radiative transfer processes
22-Nov		Mid-term exam 2
24-Nov		NO CLASS: Thanksgiving
27-Nov	Lecture 24	Radiation and climate.						L80:8.3-8.5
		Radiative-convective equilibrium.
29-Nov	Lecture 25	Direct and indirect radiative forcings
1-Dec	Lab 11	Computer modeling laboratory
4-Dec	Lecture 26	Student's project presentations
6-Dec	Lecture 27	Student's project presentations
8-Dec	Lab 12	Computer modeling laboratory
11-Dec	Lecture 28	Student's project presentations
13-Dec	Lecture 29	Student's project presentations
Reading:
L80: Liou, An introduction to atmospheric radiation, 1980.
L92: Liou, Radiation and cloud processes in the atmosphere, 1992.
G&Y: Goody and Young, Atmospheric radiation: Theoretical basis, 1989.
Le93: Lenoble, Atmospheric radiative transfer, 1993.