Mechanical - Introduction to Atmospheric Science (English)

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Lecture 1: Mod-01 Lec-01 Introduction

Lecture 2: Mod-01 Lec-02 Atmosphere-A brief survey (Pressure, Temperature and Chemical composition)

Lecture 3: Mod-01 Lec-03 Atmosphere-A brief survey contd … (Vertical structure of the atmosphere)

Lecture 4: Mod-01 Lec-04 Vertical structure of atmosphere contd ... and The Earth system - Oceans

Lecture 5: Mod-01 Lec-05 The Earth system – Oceans Contd... and Marine biosphere

Lecture 6: Mod-01 Lec-06 The Earth system – Hydrological cycle

Lecture 7: Mod-01 Lec-07 The Earth system – Hydrological cycle contd ... and Carbon cycle

Lecture 8: Mod-01 Lec-08 The Earth system – Carbon cycle contd..., and Carbon in the oceans Earth's crust

Lecture 9: Mod-01 Lec-09 The Earth system -- Carbon in the oceans Earth's crust

Lecture 10: Mod-01 Lec-10 Atmospheric Thermodynamics- Introduction

Lecture 11: Mod-01 Lec-11 The hydrostatic equation

Lecture 12: Mod-01 Lec-12 Hypsometric equation and pressure at sea level

Lecture 13: Mod-01 Lec-13 Basic Thermodynamics

Lecture 14: Mod-01 Lec-14 Concept of air parcel and dry adiabatic lapse rate

Lecture 15: Mod-01 Lec-15 Potential temperature

Lecture 16: Mod-01 Lec-16 Skew-T ln-P chart

Lecture 17: Mod-01 Lec-17 Problems using Skew-T ln-P chart

Lecture 18: Mod-01 Lec-18 Problems using Skew-T ln-P chart

Lecture 19: Mod-01 Lec-19 Problems using Skew-T ln-P chart

Lecture 20: Mod-01 Lec-20 Lifting Condensation Level (LCL)

Lecture 21: Mod-01 Lec-21 Lifting condensation level Contd...

Lecture 22: Mod-01 Lec-22 Saturated Adiabatic and Psuedo-adiabatic processes

Lecture 23: Mod-01 Lec-23 Equivalent potential temperature and wet bulb potential temperature

Lecture 24: Mod-01 Lec-24 Normand's rule - Chinook winds

Lecture 25: Mod-01 Lec-25 Problems on Chinook wind and static stability

Lecture 26: Mod-01 Lec-26 Static stability-Brunt-Visala frequency

Lecture 27: Mod-01 Lec-27 Conditional and convective instability

Lecture 28: Mod-01 Lec-28 Static stability - Problems using radiosonde data and skew T ln P chart

Lecture 29: Mod-01 Lec-29 The second law of thermodynamics – Clausius Clapeyron relation

Lecture 30: Mod-01 Lec-30 Clausius Clapeyron relation contd..

Lecture 31: Mod-01 Lec-31 Atmospheric radiation – Radiation laws

Lecture 32: Mod-01 Lec-32 Planck's distribution and Inverse square law

Lecture 33: Mod-01 Lec-33 Physics of scattering, emmision and absorption

Lecture 34: Mod-01 Lec-34 Physics of scattering, emmision and absorption contd...

Lecture 35: Mod-01 Lec-35 Radiative Transfer Equation – Derivation

Lecture 36: Mod-01 Lec-36 Radiative Transfer Equation contd..

Lecture 37: Mod-01 Lec-37 Radiative heating profiles of the atmosphere

Lecture 38: Mod-01 Lec-38 Climate Dynamics – Introduction

Lecture 39: Mod-01 Lec-39 Climate sensitivity and feedback

Lecture 40: Mod-01 Lec-40 Climate change

Lecture 41: Mod-01 Lec-41 Atmospheric dynamics