Atmospheric Chemistry AtSc 520
Fall 2024 (Class Number 27674)
Overview
The syllabus describes the requirements and procedures for
Atmospheric Chemistry (AtSc 520) class. Students are responsible for
knowing class syllabus material; hence, please read the syllabus
carefully. Any changes will be announced through email to your
University of North Dakota (UND) Blackboard site and via email.
Students are responsible for keeping up to date with class material.
Continued enrollment in the course is your implicit agreement to
abide by the class requirements. The black board site will be used
for taking quizzes, exams, and for grade book; while, the Class
Website will be used to distribute link, videos and class session
recorded via zoom.
Class Links
Class Syllabus (html,
pdf)
Zoom Class Link
Blackboard
Site (AtSc 520: Atmospheric Chemistry - Fall
2024)
Hydrogen
ion concentration as PH
Weather Links
Meteorological
Observational Trailer (MetTrailer)
In-the-news Links
2024/08/29 - Atmospheric
Effects of
Hunga Tonga
Eruption
Lingered for
Years
2024/09/10 - As
it happened: Boeing’s Starliner touches down, capping
return flight to Earth
2024/09/10 - Burned-up
satellites are polluting the atmosphere
2024/09/19 - Water
molecule discovery will force textbooks to be rewritten
2024/09/24 - Earth
will get a second "mini-moon" for
2 months this year
2024/09/26 - Rain
helps to battle 400 hectare blaze
near Grand Forks, Hwy 3 closed
2024/10/03 - Scientists
Finally Uncover Cause of
Mysterious Methane Surge During
the Global COVID Shutdown
2024/10/15 - Trees
and land absorbed almost no CO2
last year. Is nature’s carbon sink
failing?
2024/10/22 - Are
diamonds Earth’s best friend? Gem
dust could cool the planet GRL
- Microphysical
Interactions Determine the
Effectiveness of Solar Radiation
Modification via Stratospheric
Solid Particle Injection)
2024/10/22 - Should
we cut down all the oak trees?”
Strange question, serious concept
(PNAS - Hydroxymethylbutenyl
diphosphate accumulation reveals
MEP pathway regulation for high
CO2-induced suppression of
isoprene emission)
2024/10/24 - Scientists
develop novel method for
strengthening PVC products
(Chem - Electrocatalytic
grafting of polyvinyl chloride
plastics)
2024/10/24 - Five
Decades of Stratospheric Aerosols
from Balloon Measurements (JGR
Atmospheres - Measurements
of Total Aerosol Concentration in
the Stratosphere: A New
Balloon-Borne Instrument and a
Report on the Existing Measurement
Record)
2024/11/05 - Can
Geoengineering save the Doomsday
Glacier? [PNAS
- Widespread seawater intrusions
beneath the grounded ice of
Thwaites Glacier, West Antarctica]
2024/11/12 - A
New View of Deep Earth’s Carbon
Emissions
2024/11/12 - Microplastics
may be entering the clouds and
affecting the weather, scientists
say (ACS Publications - Microplastic
Particles Contain Ice Nucleation
Sites That Can Be Inhibited by
Atmospheric Aging)
Reviewed
Audio and Videos
2024/09/17 - New
Zealand Scientific Ballooning
2024/11/12 - Immersion
Freezing: How We Study It
2024/12/05 - The
pH Scale (animation)
2024
Schedule (UND Clifford Hall 264, 12:30 - 1:45 p.m. CST)
August 27, Tuesday [Recording]
Discussion: Introduction and Class Syllabus (html,
pdf)
Assignment: Exam Questions Assignment (odt,
pdf)
August 29, Thursday [Recording]
In-the-news: Atmospheric
Effects of
Hunga Tonga
Eruption
Lingered for
Years
Reviewed
Rainfall amounts and measurements for the 4 am local event using
MetTrailer observations.
Lecture - Atmospheric Composition Part 1 - Up to Slide 16 (odt, pdf)
Assignment Due: Turn in Exam Questions Assignment
Start working on Composition Assignment Posted in
Blackboard (odt, pdf)
September 3, Tuesday [Recording]
Reviewed the Red River Hydrograph for the Thursday rain
event.
Lecture - Atmospheric Composition Part 2 - Up to Slide 30 (odt, pdf)
Blog - Reviewed Friday
June 18, 2021 - Brief Low Visibility (Morning Haze Layer)
September 5, Thursday [Recording]
Returned Exam Questions Assignment.
Lecture - Atmospheric Composition Part 3 (odt, pdf)
Supplemental - Read Singh Chapter 5, Atmospheric Aerosols (pdf)
Supplemental - Review Peng et al., 2022, A database for
deliquescence and efflorescence relative humidities of compounds
with atmospheric relevance (pdf)
Assignment Due: Turn in Composition Assignment
Assignment: Singh Chapter 5 Quiz - Due Thursday, September
12
September 10, Tuesday [Recording]
In-the-news: As
it happened: Boeing’s Starliner touches down, capping
return flight to Earth
In-the-news: Burned-up
satellites are polluting the atmosphere
Lecture – Atmospheric Pressure (odt, pdf)
Supplemental - Review Franchin et al., 2018 Airborne
and ground-based observations of ammonium-nitrate- dominated
aerosols in a shallow boundary layer during intense winter
pollution episodes in northern Utah
Demonstration - Lab Tour SMPS indoor/outdoor sampling
September 12, Thursday [Recording]
Lecture – Atmospheric Transport Part 1 - Up to Slide 16 [odt, pdf]
Video -
New
Zealand Scientific Ballooning
Assignment: Atmospheric Pressure [odt, pdf] Due
Thursday, September 19
September 17, Tuesday [Recording]
Lecture - Atmospheric Transport Part 2 [odt, pdf]
September 19, Thursday [Recording]
In-the-news - Water
molecule discovery will force textbooks to be rewritten see
article in Nature Chemistry entitled, Surface
stratification determines the interfacial water structure of
simple electrolyte solutions
Lecture - Simple Models Part 1 - Up to Slide 9 [odt,
pdf]
Supplemental - Dispersion and Mixing of Low Carbon Dioxide
(CO2) Concentration Air from a Direct Air Capture (DAC) Module [odp,
pdf]
Assignment Due: Atmospheric Pressure
Assignment - Direct Air Capture White Paper Assignment [docx,
pdf]
September 24, Tuesday [Recording]
Assignment - Programming Guide: Review [odt, pdf] and
Complete Blackboard Quiz, Due Tuesday October 1.
Lecture - Simple Models Part 2 [odt, pdf]
In-the-news - Earth
will get a second "mini-moon" for
2 months this year
Demonstration - Lab Tour CDP
Exam I - Schedule for next Thursday, October 3, In Class. No
Notes.
September 26, Thursday [Recording]
In-the-news - Rain
helps to battle 400 hectare blaze
near Grand Forks, Hwy 3 closed
(Not Grand Forks North Dakota)
Assignment - Direct Air Capture White Paper Assignment
Lecture - Geochemical Cycles - Upto Slide 11 [odt, pdf]
October 1, Tuesday [Recording]
Aerosol Lifetime Programming Assignment - Due Thursday
October 10 [odt,
pdf]
Exam I Discussion - 10 Question, all constants and necessary
equations provide, can bring calculator, complete during class
period.
Quiz Due - Programming Guide Blackboard Quiz
Complete Geochemical Cycles Lecture - Part 2. [odt, pdf]
October 3, Thursday [Recording]
In-the-news - Scientists
Finally Uncover Cause of Mysterious Methane Surge During the
Global COVID Shutdown
DAC Discussion [odp, pdf]
October 8, Tuesday
Exam I
October 10, Thursday [Recording]
Lecture - Ozone [odp, pdf]
October 15, Tuesday [Recording]
In-the-news - Trees
and land absorbed almost no CO2 last year. Is nature’s carbon sink
failing?
Review Exam I
Assignment - Aerosol Lifetime Programming Assignment Due.
October 17, Thursday [Recording]
Assignment - Geochemical Cycles [odt,
pdf]
Lecture - Aerosol [odp, pdf]
Part 1 - Up to Slide 12
Demonstration - Lab Tour Cloud Condensation Nuclei Counter
October 22, Tuesday [Recording]
In-the-news - Are
diamonds Earth’s best friend? Gem dust could cool the planet GRL - Microphysical
Interactions Determine the Effectiveness of
Solar Radiation Modification via Stratospheric
Solid Particle Injection)
In-the-news - Should
we cut down all the oak trees?”
Strange question, serious concept
(PNAS - Hydroxymethylbutenyl
diphosphate accumulation reveals
MEP pathway regulation for high
CO2-induced suppression of
isoprene emission)
Demonstration - Filters for
Aerosol Sampling
Lecture - Aerosol [odp, pdf] Part 2
October 24, Thursday [Recording]
In-the-news - Scientists
develop novel method for strengthening PVC products (Chem - Electrocatalytic
grafting of polyvinyl chloride plastics)
Lecture - Aerosol Direct Forcing [odt, pdf]
Part 1 - Up to Slide 14
Assignment - Geochemical Cycles Assignment Due.
In-the-news - Five
Decades of Stratospheric Aerosols from Balloon Measurements
(JGR Atmospheres - Measurements
of Total Aerosol Concentration in the Stratosphere: A New
Balloon-Borne Instrument and a Report on the Existing Measurement
Record)
October 29, Tuesday [Recording]
Lecture - Aerosol Direct Forcing [odt, pdf]
Part 2 - Up to Slide 20
October 31, Thursday [Recording]
Lecture - Aerosol Direct Forcing [odt, pdf]
Part 3
Lecture - Aerosol Indirect Forcing [odt, pdf] Part
1 - Up to Slide 4
November 5, Tuesday [Recording]
Review - Missed Morning Fog Event [CS125
November Snapshot 6-18 UTC (0 - 12 Local)]
In-the-news - Can
Geoengineering save the Doomsday Glacier? [PNAS -
Widespread seawater intrusions beneath the grounded ice of
Thwaites Glacier, West Antarctica]
Assignment - Review Ch19: Irreversible Aqueous Chemistry in
Fundamentals of Atmospheric Modeling [pdf]
Lecture - Aerosol Indirect Forcing Part 2 [odt, pdf]
November 7, Thursday [Recording]
Review - Missed Morning Fog Event
Demonstration - Cloud in Jar
Lecture - Climate Engineering [odt, pdf]
November 12, Tuesday [Recording]
In-the-news - A
New View of Deep Earth’s Carbon
Emissions
In-the-news - Microplastics
may be entering the clouds and affecting the weather, scientists
say (ACS Publications - Microplastic
Particles Contain Ice Nucleation Sites That Can Be Inhibited by
Atmospheric Aging)
Video - Immersion
Freezing: How We Study It
Lecture - Polar Stratospheric Clouds and Stratospheric
Ozone Part 1 - Up to Slide 13 [odp, pdf]
Assignment - Complete Irreversible Aqueous Chemistry Quiz
(Due Tuesday November 19)
November 14, Thursday [Recording]
Lecture - Polar Stratospheric Clouds and Stratospheric Ozone
Part 2 [odp, pdf]
In-the-news - Scientists
may have figured out why a potent greenhouse gas is rising. The
answer is scary
November 19, Tuesday [Recording]
Review - Visibility and Weather Data
Review - Answers to Geochemical Cycle Assignment
Review - Exam II Preview
November 21, Thursday
Exam II (In-class, No Notes)
November 26, Thursday [Recording]
Review Exam II
Lecture - Aqueous Chemical Reaction Part 1 - Up to Slide 4 [odp, pdf]
November 26, Thursday
Holiday - No Class
December 3, Tuesday [Recording]
In-the-news - New
hijacking scam targets Elsevier, Springer Nature, and other major
publishers
Discussion - Final Exam Day/Time (Plan is for Tuesday
December 17 at 9:30 am)
Lecture - Aqueous Chemical Reaction Part 2 [odp,
pdf]
December 5, Thursday [Recording]
Video - The
pH Scale (animation)
Lecture - Aqueous Chemical Reaction Part 3 [odp, pdf]
December 10, Tuesday [Recording]
Supplemental: Jacobson CH 18 - Clouds Thermodynamics and
Dynamics
Clouds and Fog [odp, pdf]
Roy et al., 2024 - Evolution of Cloud Droplet Temperature and
Lifetime in Spatiotemporally Varying Subsaturated Environments with
Implications for Ice Nucleation at Cloud Edges (pdf)
December 12, Thursday [Recording]
Video - Water Drop Coalescence
Bounce
Class Summary and Final Exam Review (Oral Exam on Tuesday
9:30 in Clifford Hall 264)
Discussion - Study Guide [odt, pdf]
Demonstration - Lightning
December 17, Tuesday 9:30 a.m. (Clifford Hall 264)
Final Exam - Comprehensive (9:30 am in
Clifford Hall 264)
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