EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS IN ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY by Daniel J. Jacob, Harvard University This site is regularly updated with new material. If you would like to receive e-mail notice of updates please contact Daniel Jacob who will add you to the notification list. What's new: January 2012: New aerosols and mercury slides for Graduate Atmospheric Chemistry course January 2012: New draft chapter 6 of Mathematical Modeling of Atmospheric Chemistry January 2012: New draft chapter 5 of Mathematical Modeling of Atmospheric Chemistry October 2011: New draft chapter 4 of Mathematical Modeling of Atmospheric Chemistry September 2011: The scientific literature and you presentation to the Graduate Student Forum August 2011: Graduate atmospheric chemistry course (slides only) June 2011: 4th edition of Supplemental Problems for Introduction to Atmospheric Chemistry June 2011: Updated powerpoint slides for Introduction to Atmospheric Chemistry

Introduction to Atmospheric Chemistry | Chemical Transport Models | Inverse Modeling |
Graduate Atmospheric Chemistry |
Graduate Student Forum | Outside Lectures | Other Educational Sites

Introduction to Atmospheric Chemistry (undergraduate course)

• Introduction to Atmospheric Chemistry, by Daniel J. Jacob (Princeton University Press, 1999) (access the pdf version - be a little patient)
• Lecture slides (June 2011)
• Collection of Supplemental Problems for Introduction to Atmospheric Chemistry (pdf) (4th edition, June 2011)

Chemical Transport Models (on-line textbook by Daniel J. Jacob)

• Chapter 1: The continuity equation (pdf)
• Chapter 2: The transport operator (pdf)
• Chapter 3: The chemistry operator (pdf)
• Chapter 4: Continuity equation for aerosols (pdf)
• Chapter 5: Deposition processes (pdf)

Lectures on Inverse Modeling (on-line textbook by Daniel J. Jacob)

• Lectures on inverse modeling (pdf)

Graduate Atmospheric Chemistry Course (slides only)

• Atmospheric transport (ppt)
• Atmospheric radiation (ppt)
• Stratospheric chemistry (ppt)
• Tropospheric oxidants (ppt)
• Aerosol chemistry and climate effects (ppt)
• Mercury (ppt)
• Acid rain (ppt)
• Biogeochemical cycles (ppt)
• Modeling (ppt)

Presentations to the Jacob Group Student Forum

• The scientific literature and you (September 2011)
• Balancing work and play (March 2011)
• How to write an effective scientific paper...and how to deal with the review process (November 2009)
• How to write a successful proposal (May 2008)
• Advising and mentoring (October 2007)
• Life after the Ph.D. (April 2007)
• How to give an effective presentation (November 2006)
  - Also see How to give good presentations, by Annmarie Carlton (Rutgers) (February 2011)

Outside lectures

• Inverse modeling of atmospheric composition data, lecture by Daniel J. Jacob at the ARCNESS Winter School, Wollongong, Australia, August 17, 2007. [PPT (4 Mb)]

• Aircraft observation campaigns, lecture by Daniel J. Jacob at the ARCNESS Winter School, Wollongong, Australia, August 14, 2007. [PPT (19 Mb)]

• Global models of atmospheric composition, lecture by Daniel J. Jacob at the ARCNESS Winter School, Wollongong, Australia, August 13, 2007. [PPT (4 Mb)]

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