Main Page for FCH 511

10/23/2012 - See the revised calendar.

Syllabus - This contains an extended course guide.  Study it!!
REVISED Calendar - including readings, homework, projects, and tests.
Homework- Answers to Exercises will be posted in advance on Blackboard, while answers to Problems will be posted after the due date.
Projects -Project #1- Due in classTuesday, Spetember 25. You will need a copy of F40.xls


 Announcements  - New and Old


Additional Information:
          DeMore (JPL Data Evaluation #12) - Print out pages 265-277 of the file (pages 256-268 of the print version)!
        Sander (JPL Data Evaluation #17)  - Many rate constants have been updated, and there is a wider range of data here than in DeMore.
           IUPAC Chemical Kinetics Database   - PDF file of rate constants for tropospheric chemistry
           CFC Degradation Pathways  - Illustration for one CFC and some clues for two others.
           Rate Constants for Termolecular Reactions  - Excel spreadsheet for your use.
           Calculating Photolysis Rates - Excel file for ground-level calculations at various SZA
           Extinction coefficient of the atmosphere - Excel file showing extinction coefficients by source and %transmittance versus wavelength. Based heavily on Figure 3.15 of the text by Finlayson-Pitts and Pitts (See syllabus, page 12).
           Spectra of CFCs -
           Spectra of NOx reservoirs -
           SZA Calculation  - Excel file. Go here to find latitude and longitude from Google maps.
           OZIPR software - Lagrangian trajectory model of air pollution chemistry, with example input files. Manual may be found here.
           Total Ozone - Column ozone data from the satellite instrument called TOMS, the Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer.

           IPCC Assessment Reports - Full texts of the the 2007 Assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and related documents.
           EPA's ozone mapping project - See maps of peak daily ozone and running 8 hour averages.
           Air Quality Monitoring in East Syracuse  - (URL needs updating) Data and graphs from the NYS Dept. of Env. Conservation.
           National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) - For ozone, NO₂, Particulate Matter, lead, CO, and SO₂.
           Harvey Jeffries' Atmospheric Chemistry Class - pdf files for a class not taught by a chemist.
           Atmospheric Chemistry -   Web page of Yuhang Wang at at Georgia Tech, with links to his Atmospheric Chemistry and related courses.
           Basic Concepts in Environmental Sciences  - self-teaching modules from EPA
           Defining a Dobson Unit - from The Ozone Hole Tour at the Centre for Atmospheric Science.
           A Paleo Perpsective on Global Warming - Information from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
           Ozone Depletion Potentials - from EPA
           Ozone Depletion Potentials and Global Warming Potentials - From Syracuse Research Corporation.
           Smog City  - Parameterized model of ozone concentration versus time of day for Sacramento,
                    California.  Play with wind speed, populations, emissions from different sectors, temperature, etc.
 

Humor:  Chant to the cadence of the first four pages of Fox in Socks by Dr. Seuss:
                FO_x, O_x, BrO_x, NO_x.
                NO_x with BrO_x. No FO_x with O_x!
                NO_x with FO_x and ClO_x: more O_x!
                O_x with NO_x and NO_x with ClO_x. ClO_x and BrO_x and FO_x with NO_x.