This course focuses on ground-based and satellite observations of aerosol particles and their impacts on climate through modeling studies. Course material includes satellite and ground-based measurements of aerosol particles, mathematical formulation of transport, and numerical models of aerosol distribution. It studies how aerosols impact climate change through direct and indirect effects including cloud-aerosol interactions.

Under the direction of a faculty member, each student carries out research and presents the results. Directed research is normally taken during the first year of study. The total grading of the course will be 25% poster presentation and 75% submitted work.

This is a continuation of CEE 509. Each student carries out research, writes a report and presents the research results. Doctoral candidates must complete this course one semester prior to taking the general examination. The total grading of the course is based 25% on oral presentation and 75% based on advisors evaluation of the semester's work.

This course discusses the strategies, designs, limitations, and sources of bias of environmental field sampling, with a focus on atmospheric emissions and concentration mapping. Students design their own field strategy for local sampling of greenhouse gases and air pollutants through stationary and mobile platforms. The accuracy of the results are discussed in the context of measurement specifications (precision, accuracy, drift, calibration methods), field sampling design, and atmospheric variability, including strategies to quantify or constrain systematic errors in the overall field design.

Students will study the chemical and physical processes involved in the sources, transformation, transport, and sinks of air pollutants on local to global scales. Societal problems such as photochemical smog, particulate matter, greenhouse gases, and stratospheric ozone depletion will be investigated using fundamental concepts in chemistry, physics, and engineering. For the class project, students will select a trace gas species or family of gases and analyze recent field and remote sensing data based upon material covered in the course. Environments to be studied include very clean, remote portions of the globe to urban air quality.