Lecture 1
-Introduction&Logistics

Many roles of radiative transfer processes in the atmosphere

Lecture 2
-Basic radiometric quantities. The Beer-Bouguer-Lambert law.

Concepts of scattering, absorption, and emission.

Lecture 3
-Blackbody radiation. Main laws.
-Simple aspects of radiative transfer.

Lecture 4
-Composition and structure of the atmosphere.
-Basic properties of radiatively active species.

Lecture 5
Terrestrial infrared radiative processes. Part 1:
-Gaseous absorption/emission: Concepts of a spectral line
 and a band. Line shapes. Absorption coefficient and transmittance.

Lecture 6
Terrestrial infrared radiative processes. Part 2:
-Gaseous absorption/emission: Line-by-line approach.
-K-distribution approximations.

Lecture 7
Terrestrial infrared radiative processes. Part 3:
-Gaseous absorption/emission: Band models.
-Curtis-Godson Approximation.

Lecture 8
Terrestrial infrared radiative processes. Part 4:
-Infrared radiation transfer in the plane-parallel atmosphere.
-Radiative heating/cooling rates

Lecture 9
-Absorption by atmopsheric gases in UV and visible

Lecture 10
-Ground-based and aircraft measurements at IR wavelengths.

Lecture 11
-IR satellite remote sensing.
-Concepts of inversion problems.


Lecture 12
-Review for Exam 1: IR radiative transfer processes


Lecture 13
-Scattering. Part 1:
-Main concepts. Stokes matrix. Polarization.
-Scattering by gases.


Lecture 14
-Scattering. Part 2:
-Scattering and absorption by aerosol particles.

Lecture 15
-Scattering. Part 3:
-Scattering by water and ice cloud particles.

Lecture 16
-In situ measurements of aerosol optics

Lecture 17
-Principles of multiple scattering in the atmosphere
-Radiative transfer equation in a plan-parallel atmosphere

Lecture 18
-Methods for solving the radiative transfer equation. Part 1:
 Two-stream approximations.

Lecture 19
-Methods for solving the radiative transfer equation. Part 2:
 Effects of surface reflection on the atmospheric radiation field.

Lecture 20
-Methods for solving the radiative transfer equation. Part 3:
 Discrete-ordinate method.

Lecture 21
-Methods for solving the radiative transfer equation. Part 4:
-Principles of invariance. Adding method.

Lecture 22
-Methods for solving the radiative transfer equation. Part 5:

Lecture 23
-Review for Exam 1: Solar radiative transfer processes


Lecture 24
-Radiation and climate.
-Radiative-convective equilibrium.

Lecture 25
-Direct and indirect radiative forcings

Lecture 26
-Student's project presentations

Lecture 27
-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.