#  ES 237. Planetary Radiation and Climate 

 





 Semester:   Spring 

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 Year offered:  2015 

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 Link: [Course Website](http://people.seas.harvard.edu/~rwordsworth/es237.html) 

 

 

 

**Instructor:** Robin Wordsworth

**Description:** Atmospheric radiative transfer, including stellar properties, spectroscopy, gray and real gas calculations, Mie theory and scattering, satellite retrievals, and radiative-convective climate modelling. Climate feedbacks: the runaway greenhouse, volatile cycles on Mars and Titan, and atmospheric collapse around M-stars. Atmospheric evolution and escape (Jeans, diffusion-limited, hydrodynamic), and key processes in planetary atmospheric chemistry.

**Credit:** Half course (Spring term)



 

 



 

 See also:- [ Graduate Courses ](/harvard-courses/graduate-climate-courses)