Week1

Introduction/overview PPTX

• What is an atmosphere?

• Sun-Earth-Moon system

• Atmospheric properties

• Simple models

• Chemical kinetics

Supporting material

• Movie of ISS

• Short article about importance of ammonia in photochemical smog (focus on inversions).

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Overview of course

What is an atmosphere?

What is atmospheric composition?

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What are the implications of temperature decreasing with altitude?

Converting between (some) common units

Atmospheric lifetime