NPTEL : Introduction to Atmospheric Science (Atmospheric Science)

Co-ordinators : Prof. C. Balaji


Lecture 1 - Introduction

Lecture 2 - Atmosphere-A brief survey (Pressure, Temperature and Chemical composition)

Lecture 3 - Atmosphere-A brief survey (Continued...) (Vertical structure of the atmosphere)

Lecture 4 - Vertical structure of atmosphere (Continued...) and The Earth system - Oceans

Lecture 5 - The Earth system - Oceans (Continued...) and Marine biosphere

Lecture 6 - The Earth system - Hydrological cycle

Lecture 7 - The Earth system - Hydrological cycle (Continued...) and Carbon cycle

Lecture 8 - The Earth system - Carbon cycle (Continued...), and Carbon in the oceans Earth's crust

Lecture 9 - The Earth system - Carbon in the oceans Earth's crust

Lecture 10 - Atmospheric Thermodynamics- Introduction

Lecture 11 - The hydrostatic equation

Lecture 12 - Hypsometric equation and pressure at sea level

Lecture 13 - Basic Thermodynamics

Lecture 14 - Concept of air parcel and dry adiabatic lapse rate

Lecture 15 - Potential temperature

Lecture 16 - Skew-T ln-P chart

Lecture 17 - Problems using Skew-T ln-P chart

Lecture 18 - Problems using Skew-T ln-P chart (Continued...)

Lecture 19 - Problems using Skew-T ln-P chart (Continued...)

Lecture 20 - Lifting Condensation Level (LCL)

Lecture 21 - Lifting Condensation Level (LCL) (Continued...)

Lecture 22 - Saturated Adiabatic and Psuedo-adiabatic processes

Lecture 23 - Equivalent potential temperature and wet bulb potential temperature

Lecture 24 - Normand's rule - Chinook winds

Lecture 25 - Problems on Chinook wind and static stability

Lecture 26 - Static stability-Brunt-Visala frequency

Lecture 27 - Conditional and convective instability

Lecture 28 - Static stability - Problems using radiosonde data and skew T ln P chart

Lecture 29 - The second law of thermodynamics – Clausius Clapeyron relation

Lecture 30 - Clausius Clapeyron relation (Continued...)

Lecture 31 - Atmospheric radiation – Radiation laws

Lecture 32 - Planck's distribution and Inverse square law

Lecture 33 - Physics of scattering, emmision and absorption

Lecture 34 - Physics of scattering, emmision and absorption (Continued...)

Lecture 35 - Radiative Transfer Equation – Derivation

Lecture 36 - Radiative Transfer Equation (Continued...)

Lecture 37 - Radiative heating profiles of the atmosphere

Lecture 38 - Climate Dynamics – Introduction

Lecture 39 - Climate sensitivity and feedback

Lecture 40 - Climate change

Lecture 41 - Atmospheric dynamics