Instructor:
Professor Irina N. Sokolik
office 3104, ph.404-894-6180
email: isokolik@eas.gatech.edu
Location and meeting time:
Monday/Wednesday 3:05- 4:25 PM
ES&T L1175
Revised lecture schedule
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Jan. 9
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Lecture 1.
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Course structure&Syllabus
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Jan. 11
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Lecture 2.
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Multiple roles of radiation: Introductory survey
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Jan. 16
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School Holiday
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Jan. 18
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Lecture 3.
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Basic radiometric quantities. The Beer-Bouguer-Lambert
law.
Concepts of extinction (scattering plus absorption) and emission.
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Jan. 23
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Lecture 4.
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Blackbody radiation. Main radiation laws.
Sun as an energy source. Solar spectrum and solar constant.
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Jan. 25
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Lecture 5.
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Composition and structure of the Earth’s atmosphere.
Basic properties of gases, aerosols, and clouds that are important for radiative
transfer modeling.
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Jan. 30
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Lecture 6.
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Basics of gaseous absorption/emission. Line
shapes.
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Feb. 1
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Lecture 7.
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Absorption spectra of atmospheric gases in the
IR, visible and UV regions.
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Feb. 6
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Lecture 8.
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Terrestrial infrared radiative processes.
Part 1: Line-by-line (LBL) method for solving IR radiative transfer.
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Feb. 8
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Lecture 9.
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Terrestrial infrared radiative processes.
Part 2: Absorption band models.
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Feb. 13
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Lecture 10.
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Terrestrial infrared radiative processes.
Part 3: K-distribution approximation.
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Feb. 15
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Lecture 11.
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SBDART modeling.
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Feb. 20
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Lecture 12.
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Terrestrial infrared radiative processes.
Part 4: IR radiative heating/cooling rates.
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Feb. 22
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Lecture 13.
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Problem solution examples.
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Feb. 27
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Lecture 14.
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Review for Midterm Exam 1.
Review slides
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Feb. 29
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Midterm Exam 1.
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Mar. 5
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Lecture 15.
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Light scattering and absorption by atmospheric
particulates.
Part 1: Principles of scattering. Main concepts: elementary wave, polarization,
Stokes matrix, and scattering phase function. Rayleigh scattering.
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Mar. 7
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Lecture 16.
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Light scattering and absorption by atmospheric
particulates.
Part 2: Scattering and absorption by spherical particles.
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Mar. 12
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Lecture 17.
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Optical modeling using Mie theory.
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Mar. 14
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Lecture 18.
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Light scattering and absorption by atmospheric
particulates.
Part 3: Scattering and absorption by nonspherical particles.
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Spring Break
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Mar. 26
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Lecture 19.
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Principles of multiple scattering in the atmosphere.
Radiative transfer equation for diffuse solar radiation.
Single scattering approximation.
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Mar. 28
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Lecture 20.
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Methods for solving the radiative transfer
equation with multiple scattering.
Part 1: Two-stream approximations.
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Apr. 2
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Lecture 21.
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Methods for solving the radiative transfer
equation with multiple scattering.
Part 2: Inclusion of surface reflection and emissivity.
Exact methods: Discrete-ordinate, Adding-doubling, and Monte Carlo.
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Apr. 4
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Lecture 22.
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Problem solution examples.
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Apr. 9
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Lecture 23.
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Total radiative heating/cooling rates.
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Apr. 11
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Lecture 24.
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Radiation and climate. Simple climate models.
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Apr. 16
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Lecture 25.
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Radiative forcing of gases, aerosols and, clouds.
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Apr. 18
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Lecture 26.
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Class project presentations.
Modeling of radiative forcing of clouds.
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Apr. 23
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Lecture 27.
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Class project presentations.
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Apr. 25
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Lecture 28.
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Course review.
Review slides
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Homeworks