Tropospheric Chemistry

The course presents an overview on tropospheric chemistry, which is based on laboratory studies, measurements and numerical modelling. The topics include aerosol processes, photochemistry, emissions and deposition.

The lecture covers a wide range of scales from urban to regional and to global scale issues, and presents the fundamentals of the atmospheric nitrogen, sulfur and methane cycles and their contributions to aerosol and oxidant formation.

Based on the presented material the students are expected to understand the most relevant processes responsible for the anthropogenic disturbances of tropospheric chemical composition. The competence of synthesis of knowledge will be improved by paper reading tasks and student's presentations. These presentations relate to a particular actual problem selected by the canidates.

All lecture material is made available on moodle

• Atmospheric Chemistry, Ann M. Holloway and Richard P. Wayne, Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Publishing, 2010
• Introduction to Atmospheric Chemistry, Daniel D. Jacob, Princeton University Press, 2000
• Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, from air pollution to Climate Change, J. H. Seinfeld and S. N. Pandis, John Wiley Publishing, 3rd edition, 2016
• Fundamentals of Atmospheric Modelling, M. Z. Jacobson, Cambridge University Press,
  2nd edition, 2005