PřF:E0610 Atmospheric chemistry - Course Information
E0610 Trends and advances in atmospheric and total environmental chemistry
Faculty of ScienceAutumn 2024
- Extent and Intensity
- 2/0/0. 2 credit(s) (plus extra credits for completion). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
- Teacher(s)
- prof. Gerhard Lammel, PhD. (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- prof. RNDr. Jana Klánová, Ph.D.
RECETOX – Faculty of Science
Contact Person: prof. Gerhard Lammel, PhD.
Supplier department: RECETOX – Faculty of Science - Prerequisites
- Students should have basic knowledge in environmental chemistry.
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is offered to students of any study field.
- Course objectives
- At the end of the course students should have a basic understanding of environmental and atmospheric chemistry
- Learning outcomes
- students will (a) understand and appreciate the natural atmospheric chemistry driven by sunlight, (b) comprehend the chemodynamics of pollutants cycling in the Earth system, (c) comprehend and evaluate impacts of anthropogenic (industrial, agricultural, ...) emissions on ecosystems and human health
- Syllabus
- Atmospheric chemistry: - ozone chemistry: ozone formation dynamics, potential of hydrocarbons and trends, removal processes - oxides of N and S: acidity formation processes and trends (e.g. depositional), removal processes - aerosol composition, its transformations and trends (e.g. organic fraction and its implications, phase partitioning of semivolatiles), aerosol microphysical processes and their relevance for atmospheric sciences, aerosol effects: climate, health, process representations in modelling and application results (e.g. aerosol-climate effects, critical loads concept), removal processes Total environmental chemistry: - atmospheric and oceanic long-range transport, process representations in modelling and application results - final sink processes (chemical degradation, burial in the deep sea) - intercompartmental exchange processes: atmospheric deposition, volatilization from surfaces, multihopping and 'global distillation' hypothesis, process representations in modelling and application results
- Literature
- Schwarzenbach, René P. / Gschwend, Philip M. / Imboden, Dieter M.: Environmental Organic Chemistry, 2nd ed., Wiley, Hoboken, USA, 2003, 1200 pp.
- Teaching methods
- lectures
- Assessment methods
- written test
- Language of instruction
- English
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
- Enrolment Statistics (recent)
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