EAS 5750 Planetary Atmospheres (also ASTRO 6575)
NOT OFFERED THIS YEAR Fall. 4 credits. Prerequisites: undergraduate physics, vector calculus. Offered alternate years; next offered 2010–2011. P. Gierasch.
Introduction to radiative transfer in emitting and scattering atmospheres in the solar system. Introduction to motions in atmospheres. Planetary examples of balanced flows. Mesoscale waves, wave absorption and wave accelerations. Planetary waves. The influence of wave accelerations on thermal structure and composition. Introduction to atmospheric chemistry. Dynamical transports. Observation. At the level of Andrews, Atmospheric Physics.