Course content
- Week 1: Theoretical development of laboratory exercises in actinometry, ozonesounding, and meteorology.
- Week 2: Introduction to environmental parameter measurements. Representativeness of measurements. Quality control/assurance.
- Week 3: Meteorological parameter measurements I: Temperature. Reference points and temperature scales. Meteorological thermometers. Errors and sources of error in temperature measurement. Exercises.
- Week 4: Meteorological parameter measurements II: Humidity, Pressure. Parameters for determining humidity. Psychrometers and hair hygrometers. Spectroscopic hygrometers. Operating principles of other hygrometers. Pressure units. Operating principles and characteristics of barometers. Exercises.
- Week 5: Meteorological parameter measurements III: Wind. Scales and units. Characteristics and operating principles of anemometers. Wind vanes. Calculation of the vertical distribution of wind. Exercises.
- Week 6: Radiation measurements: Overview of methods and measurement quantities. Spectral response of radiation instruments. Measurement geometry – radiation flux and intensity. Angular response error. Exercises.
- Week 7: Spectrophotometers I: Description, characteristics, grating equation, resolution, error due to internally scattered light.
- Week 8: Spectrophotometers II: Absolute calibration and determination of measured wavelength. Applications. Exercises.
- Week 9: Broadband radiometers: Determination of spectral response. Calibration using standard sources and reference instruments. Errors due to instrument temperature variations. Exercises.
- Week 10: Remote sensing of atmospheric gas column density from ground and satellite: Differential Optical Absorption Spectroscopy (DOAS) method, Brewer-Dobson method.
- Week 11: Atmospheric remote sensing using laser beams (LIDAR).
- Week 12: In-situ vertical profiling of atmospheric components.
- Week 13: In-situ air quality measurements: Atmospheric pollutants NOx, SO₂, O₃, CO, hydrocarbons, aerosols.
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