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Chemistry of the natural atmosphere / Peter Warneck

Author
Warneck, Peter
Published
San Diego, Calif. : Academic, [2000]
Copyright Date
©2000
Edition
2nd ed.
Physical Description
xvii, 927 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

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BULK COMPOSITION, STRUCTURE, AND DYNAMICS OF THE ATMOSPHERE: Observational data and averages -- Temperature structure and atmospheric regions -- Pressure, density, and mixing ratio -- Global circulation and transport -- Air mass exchange between principal atmospheric domains -- The planetary boundary layer -- PHOTOCHEMICAL PROCESSES AND ELEMENTARY REACTIONS: Fundamentals of reactions kinetics -- Properties of rate coefficients -- Photochemical processes -- Attenuation of solar radiation in the atmosphere -- Photodissociation of oxygen and ozone -- Photochemistry of minor atmospheric constituents -- CHEMISTRY OF THE STRATOSPHERE: Historical survey -- Ozone observations -- The chapman model -- Trace gases other than ozone -- Heterogeneous and polar stratospheric chemistry -- The budget of ozone in the stratosphere -- CHEMISTRY OF THE TROPOSPHERE: THE METHANE OXIDATION CYCLE: The tropospheric reservoir -- Hydroxyl radicals in the troposphere -- The budget of methane -- Formaldehyde -- Carbon monoxide -- Hydrogen -- OZONE IN THE TROPOSPHERE: Photochemical air pollution -- Distribution and behavior of tropospheric ozone -- A minimum tropospheric ozone budget -- Photochemical production and loss of ozone in the unperturbed troposphere -- and HYDROCARBONS, HALOCARBONS, AND OTHER VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS: Hydrocarbons and some other organic volatiles -- Hydrocarbon oxidation mechanisms -- Halocarbons -- THE ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOL: Particulate size distribution -- The physical behavior of particles -- Aerosol sources and global production rates -- The chemical constitution of the aerosol -- Global distribution, physical removal, and residence time of the tropospheric aerosol -- CHEMISTRY OF CLOUDS AND PRECIPITATION: The water cycle -- Cloud and rain formation -- The incorporation of particulate matter into cloud and raindrops -- The scavenging of gases by cloud and raindrops -- Inorganic chemical composition and pH of cloud and rain water -- Chemical reactions in cloud and fog waters -- NITROGEN COMPOUNDS IN THE TROPOSPHERE: Biochemical processes -- Ammonia -- Nitrous oxide -- Nitrogen dioxide, NO2, and related nitrogen compounds -- SULFUR COMPOUNDS IN THE ATMOSPHERE: Reduced sulfur compounds -- Sulfur dioxide, SO2 , and particulate sulfate -- Tropospheric sulfur budgets -- GEOCHEMISTRY OF CARBON DIOXIDE: The major carbon reservoirs -- The global carbon cycles -- THE EVOLUTION OF THE ATMOSPHERE: The noble gases -- The primitive atmosphere -- Nitrogen -- Oxygen -- Atmospheric gases: cumulative versus cyclic behavior.
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ISBN
0127356320
Note
Previous ed.: 1988.
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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