Syllabus

Course Meeting Times

Lectures: 1 session / week, 2 hours / session

Labs: 1 session / week, 2 hours / session

Prerequisites

Physical Chemistry (5.61), Advanced Calculus for Engineers (18.075), or permission of instructor.

Grading

Based on grades from 6 exercises (weighted by degree of difficulty).

Required Textbook

Liou, Kuo-Nan. An Introduction to Atmospheric Radiation. 2nd ed. Burlington, MA: Academic Press, 2002. ISBN: 9780124514515.

Reference Textbook

Goody, R., and Y. Yung. Atmospheric Radiation. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1995. ISBN: 9780195102918.