10/23/2012 - See the revised calendar.
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:
FOx, Ox, BrOx, NOx.
NOx with BrOx. No FOx with Ox!
NOx with FOx and ClOx: more Ox!
Ox with NOx and NOx with ClOx.
ClOx and BrOx and FOx with NOx.