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Dec 14, 2025
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CHE 5610 - Atmospheric Chemistry
Fundamental chemistry of the troposphere and stratosphere. Emissions, transport, sources, and sinks of pollutants in the atmosphere. Air quality regulations and monitoring.
Requisites:
Credit Hours: 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
- Students will be able to calculate pollutant concentrations and determine their lifetime.
- Students will be able to construct one-box and multi-box models of the atmosphere, using zero and first order approximations of exchange and transformation process.
- Students will be able to describe the structure of the atmosphere and the processes by which large and small-scale atmospheric transport occur.
- Students will be able to construct and solve coupled rate expressions for gas phase reactions.
- Students will be able to discuss the influence of important trace gases and particulates on the radiation budget of the Earth.
- Students will be able to discuss the science of underlying issues such as the ban on chlorofluorocarbons, global warming, the ozone hole, and smog reduction with an informed layperson.
- Students will be able to discuss the current state of research in atmospheric chemistry.
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