|
HU Credits:
5
Degree/Cycle:
1st degree (Bachelor)
Responsible Department:
Atmospheric Sciences
Semester:
2nd Semester
Teaching Languages:
Hebrew
Campus:
E. Safra
Course/Module Coordinator:
Prof Carynelisa Haspel
Coordinator Office Hours:
by request
Teaching Staff:
Prof Carynelisa Haspel,
Mr. Efraim Bril
Course/Module description:
This course covers the following topics: definition of electromagnetic radiation, complex numbers and waves, creating light, flux and intensity, the interaction between light and matter, the concepts of absorption, emission, scattering, refraction, reflection, and dispersion, the Beer-Lambert law, derivation of the general radiative transfer equation, radiative transfer in an absorbing and emitting atmosphere, radiative transfer in a scattering and absorbing atmosphere.
Course/Module aims:
The students should gain an understanding of all of the concepts connected to electromagnetic radiation, the interaction of electromagnetic radiation with Earth's atmosphere, and how to calculate the intensity of radiation at any point in the Earth-atmosphere system.
Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
1. Define electromagnetic radiation.
2. Explain from where electromagnetic radiation in the atmosphere comes.
3. Define all of the different types of interaction between radiation and matter.
4. Describe qualitatively the different categories of elastic scattering of electromagnetic radiation.
5. Derive the general radiative transfer equation.
6. Solve the general radiative transfer equation for certain specified atmospheric conditions.
Attendance requirements(%):
There is no formal attendance requirement. Recordings of the lectures will be made available to students. However, it is highly recommended to attend as many of the lectures as possible and to make sure to watch the recordings of any lectures missed.
Teaching arrangement and method of instruction:
Four weekly hours of frontal lecture in which the lecturer explains, presents questions to the class, and opens debates, plus one weekly hour of recitation with PowerPoint presentations, extra material, and hints and help on homework questions.
Course/Module Content:
1. radiative transfer - why and what
2. the definition of radiation
3. creating light
4. intensity and flux
5. qualitative description of the interaction of radiation with matter
6. the Beer-Lambert experiment and derivation of the general radiative transfer equation
7. intensity and flux in a plane-parallel atmosphere
8. mathematical description of Rayleigh scattering
9. mathematical description of Mie scattering
10. mathematical description of geometric optics
11. calculating efficiencies and phase functions
12. radiative transfer in an absorbing and emitting atmosphere
13. radiative transfer in a scattering and absorbing atmosphere
14. direct radiation and surface albedo
15. single scattering approximation
16. two-stream approximation
Required Reading:
the lecturer's presentations
Additional Reading Material:
1. Petty, A First Course in Atmospheric Radiation, 1st edition, Sundog Publishing, 2004 and/or 2nd edition, Sundog Publishing, 2006.
2. Liou, An Introduction to Atmospheric Radiation, Academic, 1980.
3. Thomas and Stamnes, Radiative Transfer in the Atmosphere and Ocean, Cambridge, 1999.
4. Hecht, Optics, Pearson Addison Wesley, 2001.
5. Lenoble, Atmospheric Radiative Transfer, A. Deepak, 1993.
6. Bohren and Clothiaux, Fundamentals of Atmospheric Radiation, Wiley, 2006.
7. Goody and Yung, Atmospheric Radiation: Theoretical Basis, Oxford University Press, 1989.
8. Bohren and Huffmann, Absorption and Scattering of Light by Small Particles, John Wiley and Sons, 1983.
9. van de Hulst, Light Scattering by Small Particles, Dover, 1981.
10. Chandrasekhar, Radiative Transfer, Dover, 1960.
11. Liou, Radiation and Cloud Processes in the Atmosphere, Oxford University Press, 1992.
Grading Scheme :
Written / Oral / Practical Exam / Home Exam 80 %
Submission assignments during the semester: Exercises / Essays / Audits / Reports / Forum / Simulation / others 20 %
Additional information:
During the course bonus questions will be presented. Each is worth up to 1 net point extra credit on the final course grade.
|
