Website for Course 689-602 (489-SPTPLAB)

Laboratory Methods in Atmospheric Sciences

Instructor: Dr. Sarah Brooks
Phone: (979) 845-5632

Email: sbrooks@ariel.met.tamu.edu

Office: Eller O&M 1010A




Lectures

1. Introduction to Course

2. Statistics (See Skoog, West, and Holler, Six Edition, Chapters 2 and 3)

3. Aerosol Measurements, Part 1, Physical Characteristics

4. Aerosol Measurements, Part 2, Optical Properties

5. Aerosol Measurements, Part 3, More on Optical Properties

6. Aerosol Collection and Chemical Measurements

7,8. Principles of Chromatography. See Skoog,Holler, and Nieman.Chapter 24

9.Chromatography in Practice

10. GC Instruments I

11. GC Instruments II

12. Chemical Equilibrium, Acid Deposition

13-14. Introduction to Spectroscopy, FTIR

C15-16.Absorption Measurements and Chemical Fluxes by Dr. Gunnar Schade

17. Roundtable discussion of Precipitation Lab

18. Conclusion of FTIR

19. Lasers and LIF

20. Atomic Mass Spectroscopy

21. Molecular Mass Spectroscopy

22. Aerosol Mass Spectroscopy