Dominik Wilhelm Brunner: Catalogue data in Spring Semester 2018

Name	Prof. Dr. Dominik Wilhelm Brunner
Address	EMPA Überlandstrasse 129 Luftfremdstoffe und Umwelttechnik 8600 Dübendorf SWITZERLAND
Telephone	058 765 49 44
Fax	058 765 62 44
E-mail	dominik.brunner@env.ethz.ch
Department	Environmental Systems Science
Relationship	Adjunct Professor

Number	Title	ECTS	Hours	Lecturers
701-0471-AAL	Atmospheric Chemistry Enrolment ONLY for MSc students with a decree declaring this course unit as an additional admission requirement. Any other students (e.g. incoming exchange students, doctoral students) CANNOT enrol for this course unit.	3 credits	6R	D. W. Brunner, M. Ammann
Abstract	This course provides a general introduction into atmospheric chemistry targeted at master students who did not follow the bachelor course "atmospheric chemistry" or equivalent.
Learning objective	The learning target of this course is a general overview on the most important processes of atmospheric chemistry and the various problems of the anthropogenic impact on the chemical composition of the atmosphere and air quality.
Content	- Physical properties of the atmosphere: structure, large scale dynamics, UV radiation - Thermodynamics and kinetics of gas phase reactions: enthalpy and free energy of reactions, rate laws, mechanisms of bimolecular and termolecular reactions. - Photochemistry: Photolysis frequencies, O3 formation,... - Aerosols and clouds: chemical properties, primary and secondary aerosol sources - Multiphase chemistry: heterogeneous kinetics, solubility and hygroscopicity, N2O5 chemistry, SO2 oxidation, secondary organic aerosols - Deposition: dry and wet deposition, acid rain,... - Air quality: Environmental problems, legislation, sources, trends - Stratospheric chemistry: Chapman cycle, Brewer-Dobson circulation, catalytic ozone destruction cycles, polar ozone hole, Montreal protocol Global aspects: global budgets, air quality - climate interactions
701-1234-00L	Tropospheric Chemistry	3 credits	2G	A. Prévôt, D. W. Brunner, I. El Haddad
Abstract	The course gives an overview tropospheric chemistry, which is based on laboratory studies, measurements and numerical modelling. The topics include aerosol, photochemistry, emissions and depositions. The lecture covers urban-regional-to-global scale issues, as well as fundamentals of the atmospheric nitrogen, sulfur and CH4 cycles and their contributions to aerosol and oxidant formation.
Learning objective	Based on the presented material the students are expected to understand the most relevant processes responsible for the anthropogenic disturbances of tropospheric chemical composition. The competence of synthesis of knowledge will be improved by student's presentations. These presentations relate to a particular actual problem selected by the canidates.
Content	Starting from the knowledge acquired in lecture 701-0471, the course provides a more profound view on the the chemical and dynamical process governing the composition and impacts of air pollutant like aerosol and ozone, at the earth's surface and the free troposphere. Specific topics are offered are: laboratory and ambient measurements in polluted and pristine regions, the determination of emissions of a variety of components, numerical modelling across scales, regional air pollution - aerosol, and photooxidatant in relation to precursor emissions, impacts (health, vegetation, climate), the global cycles of tropospheric ozone, CH4, sulfur and nitrogen components.
Lecture notes	Lecture presentations are available for download.
Literature	D. Jacob, Introduction to Atmospheric Chemistry http://acmg.seas.harvard.edu/publications/jacobbook Mark Z. Jacobson: Fundamentals of Atmospheric Modelling, Cambridge University Press John Seinfeld and Spyros Pandis, Atmosperic Chemistry and Physics, from air pollution to Climate Change, Wiley, 2006.
Prerequisites / Notice	The basics in physical chemsitry are required and an overview equivalent to the bachelor course in atmospheric chemsitry (lecture 701-0471-01) is expected.