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Subject:	Mechanical Engineering
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Name:	Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (IIT Madras)
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Introduction to Atmospheric Science

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I. Introduction and Earth system
Lecture 1 Play Video	Introduction to Atmospheric Science
Lecture 2 Play Video	Atmosphere - A Brief Survey: Pressure, Temperature and Chemical composition)
Lecture 3 Play Video	Atmosphere - A Brief Survey: Vertical structure of the atmosphere
Lecture 4 Play Video	Vertical structure of atmosphere contd ... and The Earth system - Oceans
Lecture 5 Play Video	The Earth system – Oceans Contd... and Marine biosphere
Lecture 6 Play Video	The Earth system – Hydrological cycle
Lecture 7 Play Video	The Earth system – Hydrological cycle contd ... and Carbon cycle
II. Atmospheric Thermodynamics
Lecture 8 Play Video	The Earth system – Carbon cycle contd..., and Carbon in the oceans Earth's crust
Lecture 9 Play Video	The Earth system -- Carbon in the oceans Earth's crust
Lecture 10 Play Video	Atmospheric Thermodynamics- Introduction
Lecture 11 Play Video	The hydrostatic equation
Lecture 12 Play Video	Hypsometric equation and pressure at sea level
Lecture 13 Play Video	Basic Thermodynamics
Lecture 14 Play Video	Concept of air parcel and dry adiabatic lapse rate
Lecture 15 Play Video	Potential temperature
Lecture 16 Play Video	Skew-T ln-P chart
Lecture 17 Play Video	Problems using Skew-T ln-P chart
Lecture 18 Play Video	Problems using Skew-T ln-P chart
Lecture 19 Play Video	Problems using Skew-T ln-P chart
Lecture 20 Play Video	Lifting Condensation Level (LCL)
Lecture 21 Play Video	Lifting condensation level Contd...
Lecture 22 Play Video	Saturated Adiabatic and Psuedo-adiabatic processes
III. Radiative Transfer
Lecture 23 Play Video	Equivalent potential temperature and wet bulb potential temperature
Lecture 24 Play Video	Normand's rule - Chinook winds
Lecture 25 Play Video	Problems on Chinook wind and static stability
Lecture 26 Play Video	Static stability-Brunt-Visala frequency
Lecture 27 Play Video	Conditional and convective instability
Lecture 28 Play Video	Static stability - Problems using radiosonde data and skew T ln P chart
Lecture 29 Play Video	The second law of thermodynamics – Clausius Clapeyron relation
Lecture 30 Play Video	Clausius Clapeyron relation contd..
Lecture 31 Play Video	Atmospheric radiation – Radiation laws
IV. Atmospheric Dynamics
Lecture 32 Play Video	Planck's distribution and Inverse square law
Lecture 33 Play Video	Physics of scattering, emmision and absorption
Lecture 34 Play Video	Physics of scattering, emmision and absorption contd...
Lecture 35 Play Video	Radiative Transfer Equation – Derivation
V. Atmospheric Boundary Layer
Lecture 36 Play Video	Radiative Transfer Equation contd..
Lecture 37 Play Video	Radiative heating profiles of the atmosphere
VI. Climate Dynamics
Lecture 38 Play Video	Climate Dynamics – Introduction
Lecture 39 Play Video	Climate sensitivity and feedback
Lecture 40 Play Video	Climate change
Lecture 41 Play Video	Atmospheric dynamics