Course syllabus

Atmosfärskemi och -fysik
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

FKFF05, 5 credits, G2 (First Cycle)

Valid for: 2017/18
Decided by: PLED N
Date of Decision: 2017-04-06

General Information

Main field: Technology.
Compulsory for: W2
Elective for: F4, F4-es
Language of instruction: The course will be given in English

Aim

The course should provide understanding of physical, chemical and meteorological processes in the atmosphere as well as environmental concequences of changes of atmospheric composition caused by human activities, such as climate change and destruction of stratospheric ozone. The course should also provide a capability to assess and discuss environmental issues within the working life and societal debate from a natural science perspective.

Learning outcomes

Knowledge and understanding
For a passing grade the student must

• know how to undertake physical and chemical calculations for the atmosphere based on presented methodology and modelling tools, such as meteorological box models and simple climate models, and to interpret the results in atmospheric and environmental perspectives
• be able to describe and understand the role of atmospheric processes in important environmental issues from a narural science perspective
• know how to explain qualitatively and in some cases quantitatively the impact of human activities on the atmosphere, and in a wider perspective, the conditions for life.

Competences and skills
For a passing grade the student must

• acquire knowledge to integrate material on the atmosphere from several disciplines
• acquire knowledge to integrate material from text books and simpler scientific literature
• carry out project work and plan a presentation
• be able to present a project and discuss their results.

Contents

Atmospheric composition and thermodynamical properties, meteorology, meteorological models, geochemical cycles, climate, aerosol, chemical kinetics, stratospheric ozone, oxidising power of the atmosphere, tropospheric ozone and acid rain.

Examination details

Grading scale: TH - (U,3,4,5) - (Fail, Three, Four, Five)
Assessment: The examination consists of a written exam and a project.

The examiner, in consultation with Disability Support Services, may deviate from the regular form of examination in order to provide a permanently disabled student with a form of examination equivalent to that of a student without a disability.

Parts
Code: 0118. Name: Project.
Credits: 1. Grading scale: UG. Assessment: Examination of oral presentation
Code: 0218. Name: Written Examination.
Credits: 4. Grading scale: TH. Assessment: Written exam

Admission

Required prior knowledge: FMAA05 Calculus in One Variable.
The number of participants is limited to: No
The course overlaps following course/s: FKFF01

Reading list

• Jacob, D.J.: Introduction to Atmospheric Chemistry.
• Princeton University Press 1999. ISBN: 0-691-00185-5.
• Additional material handed out during the course.

Contact and other information

Course coordinator: Professor Bengt Martinsson, bengt.martinsson@nuclear.lu.se
Course homepage: http://www.nuclear.lu.se/utbildning/obligatoriska_kurser/atmospheric_chemistry_and_physics/