PHY 499S
Earth Observations from Space
Home Page for Spring Term 2005

Information Course Notes Additional Materials Essay and Problem Sets Tests Physics Resources

• General Information
• Course Outline and References

• Section 1 - Introduction (17 pages)
• Section 2 - Satellite Orbits (22 pages)
• Section 3 - Radiative Transfer (30 pages)
• Section 4 - Remote Sensing/Sounding (13 pages)
• Section 5 - Observations of the Earth's Atmosphere (57 pages)
• IPCC 2001: Global Warming and Climate Change (23 pages)

• Assorted WWW Sites related to Atmospheric Science, Space-Based Missions, and Useful Resources
• Satellite ToolKit Home Page
• Numerical Recipes Online
• Stratospheric Ozone - An Electronic Textbook (NASA GSFC)
• Canadian Space Capabilities - Presentation at CSA Workshop, January 2000

• Essay and Presentation
• Class Presentations - Mini-Conference Schedule - stay tuned

• Problem Set #1
• Problem Set #2
• Problem Set #3

• Lists of Constants and Equations for the Mid-Term Test
• Mid-Term Test
• Lists of Constants and Equations for the Final Exam

• University of Toronto Physics Examinations Collection
• PASU (Physics and Astronomy Student Union) Test Library

• This week's Department of Physics Colloquium ( weekly)
• Undergraduate Physics Students' Computing And Learning Environment (UPSCALE), University of Toronto
• Department of Physics Library, University of Toronto
• Physics and Astronomy Student Union (PASU), University of Toronto

• Canadian Association of Physicists
• American Institute of Physics
• American Physical Society
• Institute of Physics
• European Physical Society
• Physics Today magazine
• Physics World magazine

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Atmospheric Physics Group
Department of Physics
University of Toronto

This web site is maintained by Kimberly Strong.
Last updated April 20, 2005.