Differential Optical Absorption Spectroscopy Principles and Applications /

• Main Authors: Platt, Ulrich (Author), Stutz, Jochen (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2008.
• Series: Physics of Earth and Space Environments,
• Subjects: Earth sciences.; Physical chemistry.; Geochemistry.; Natural disasters.; Optics.; Electrodynamics.; Geophysics.; Environmental sciences.; Earth Sciences.; Natural Hazards.; Optics and Electrodynamics.; Geophysics and Environmental Physics.; Environmental Physics.; Physical Chemistry.

Measurement techniques form the basis of our knowledge about atmospheric composition and chemistry. Presently, important questions of atmospheric chemistry center on urban pollution, free-radical chemistry, degradation of greenhouse gases and the budgets of tropospheric and stratospheric ozone. Amon...

Table of Contents:

• Atmospheric Chemistry
• Interaction of Molecules with Radiation
• Radiation Transport in the Atmosphere
• Measurement Techniques for Atmospheric Trace Gas Concentrations and Other Parameters
• Differential Absorption Spectroscopy
• The Design of DOAS Instruments
• Evaluation of DOAS Spectra, Sensitivity and Detection Limits
• Scattered-light DOAS Measurements
• Sample Application of ’Active’ DOAS with Artificial Light Sources
• Sample Application of ’Passive’ DOAS
• DOAS: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
• Literature.