Course Syllabus
Project Guidelines
| Title & Lecture Notes | Lecturer | Additional Reading | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A Few Preliminaries | Griffith | Any Introductory Textbook on Atmospheres |
| 2 | The Radiative Transfer Equation | Griffith | Course Textbook |
| 3 | Thermal Radiation and the dawn of Quantum Mechanics | Griffith | TBD |
| 4 | Emission Spectra of Planetary Atmospheres | Griffith | TBD |
| 5 | Einstein's Closer Look into thermal emission | Griffith | TBD |
| 6 | Rotational-Vibrational Spectroscopy | Griffith | TBD |
| 7 | Line Broadening | Griffith | Liou pg 26-32 |
| 8 | Review | Griffith | None |
| 9 | Runaway Greenhouse | Griffith | Ingersoll 1969 |
| 10 | RT with Scattering | Griffith | None |
| 11 | Direct & Diffuse Radiation | Griffith | Text book |
| 12 | A tiny bit about polarization | Griffith | Petty |
| 13 | Rayleigh & Mie Scattering | Griffith | Hansen & Travis 1974 |
| 14 | About Legendre Polynomials & Phase Functions | Griffith | Textbook |
| Title | References | Due Date | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brushing up on Some Fundamentals & Projects | Standard textbooks | January 30 |
| Item | Reference | Usage | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Example of a fortran program that calls a subroutine and function | Griffith | Note different program structures |
| 2 | A Line-by-line Code | Griffith | Must be fully tested! |
| 2 | Subroutine that reads HITRAN files | Griffith | Again, test first! |