ATMO/OPTI 656B Home Page Spring 2009

Last updated: April 30, 2009 12:30 MST

ATMO/OPTI 656b Atmospheric Radiation and Remote Sensing

Note: ATMO/OPTI 656a is NOT a prerequisite for this semester

Desired background:

ATMO 567 Inverse Problems in Geophysics

Some programming knowledge (Matlab in particular),

Location: PAS488, T Th 1:00-2:15

Professor: E. Robert Kursinski, Office PAS 580, office phone: 621-2139, Cell: 260-8404 e-mail: kursinski@atmo.arizona.edu

Course Syllabus

Homework

1. Attend and take notes for Jack Kaye and Jeff Anderson Atmo seminars Friday 1/16/09. See Atmo seminar series web page for places and times. Hand in (typed) notes at Tuesday’s class.

2. Attend and take notes for Dave Gochis’ (NCAR) HWR lecture Wednesday 1/21/09 at 4 PM in Harshbarger Rm 206.

“The North American Monsoon Experiment: Progress and challenges in improving predictions of warm season rainfall”

• Read Appendix B of EvZ text on satellite orbits.

3. Attend and take notes for the ATMO seminar Thursday 3:30 by Mark Zreda (HWR) on remotely sensing soil via moisture cosmic-ray neutrons.

• Read Chapter 2 of EvZ on electromagnetic radiation

4. Fill out Instrument summary table for a particular mission

5. Rotational spectrum of ¹³CO

• Chapter 8 of EvZ
• Project abstract
• 4/2/09 project plan weekly schedule
• 4/9/09 1^st progress report on projects
• 4/16/09 2^nd progress report on projects
• 4/23/09 3^rd progress report on projects

Lectures

Overview pdf word

Background pdf word

Orbits pdf word

E&M basics pdf word

Planck & Einstein coeffs pdf word

Vertical atmospheric structure review pdf word

Resonant interactions with atmospheres pdf word

Line shapes pdf word

Optical depth & Extinction Coefficient pdf word

Temperature emission weighting functions pdf word

Simple Radiative Transfer in terms of tau pdf word

Limb viewing weighting functions pdf word

Simple inversion theory to profile temperature pdf word

Bayesian theory pdf word

Nonlinear solutions pdf word

Variational demonstration pdf word

GPS PW pdf word

GPS Occultation pdf ppt SuperrefractionExample

ATOMMS Occultation pdf ppt

Mie Scattering notes pdf word

Maetzler Mie Notes 1 2

Precipitation RADAR pdf word

Wind remote sensing pdf word

Additional Material

Jack Kaye’s talk ppt

Observing System Development Framework ppt

Jeff Anderson talk ppt

Dave Gochis talk ppt

Marek Zreda’s talk pdf

CHAMP orbit decay pdf occultation coverage evolution for April pdf

Satellite collision 1 2 3 npr

Crisis? What crisis? pdf Fed res target rate chart gif

The necessity of Stupidity in science pdf

The reality of being a university scientist weblink

OCO crashes Tuesday 02/24/09 weblink

Methane on Mars pdf

MEPAG weblink

https://nasa.webex.com/nasa/j.php?ED=115282672&RG=1&UID=1099316772

mm and sub-mm spectra

Relevant (as opposed to irrelevant) papers

Santer et al. 2005 warming in the free troposphere

Mears and Wentz 2005 MSU derived free tropospheric warming trends

Randall and Herman 2007 Problems with MSU diurnal correction

Satellite Orbits & Missions Ch. 6

Satelite Instrument Summary Tables

GOES (D. Kofron) pdf

POES (S. Olson) pdf

DMSP (A. Penny) pdf

AQUA (A. Arnold) pdf

TERRA (M. Stovern) pdf

AURA (B. Cassell) pdf

Active particulates (K. Wood) pdf

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