Aeronomy of the Middle Atmosphere Chemistry and Physics of the Stratosphere and Mesosphere /

• Main Authors: Brasseur, Guy P. (Author), Solomon, Susan (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2005.
• Edition: Third revised and enlarged edition.
• Series: Atmospheric and Oceanographic Sciences Library, 32
• Subjects: Earth sciences.; Atmospheric sciences.; Environment.; Radiation protection.; Radiation > Safety measures.; Environmental sciences.; Air pollution.; Earth Sciences.; Atmospheric Sciences.; Atmospheric Protection/Air Quality Control/Air Pollution.; Environmental Physics.; Environment, general.; Effects of Radiation/Radiation Protection.; Earth Sciences, general.

Since the Industrial Revolution the chemical composition of the atmosphere has changed at a rate unprecedented in recent history. Ozone depletion emerged as one of the most important environmental issues of the 20th century as evidence grew for substantial human influences on the atmospheric ozone a...

Table of Contents:

• The Middle Atmosphere and its Evolution
• Chemical Concepts in the Atmosphere
• Dynamics and Transport
• Radiation
• Composition and Chemistry
• Ozone Perturbations
• The Ions.