Atmospheric Environmental Research

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XIV

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2. The Global Approach

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Global Problems of Atmospheric Chemistry — The Story of Man’s Impact on Atmospheric Ozone

      • P. J. Crutzen

      Pages 3-30

   3. Can Laboratory Data be Related with the Real World?

      • U. Schurath

      Pages 31-42

   4. An Example for a Man-Made Induced Feedback on the Global Oxidation Capacity: The Possible Increase of Atmospheric H2O2 Concentrations

      • D. Möller

      Pages 43-48

3. Nature and Technology in Conflict?

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 49-49

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   2. Forest Soil Reaction to Drastic Changes in Sulphur and Alkaline Dust Deposition in Three Scots Pine Ecosystems in Northeast Germany

      • W. Schaaf, M. Weisdorfer, R. F. Huettl

      Pages 51-77

   3. Results of the European Auto-Oil Programme: Effects of Future European Exhaust Emissions from Road Transport on the Air Quality of European Cities

      • N. Metz

      Pages 79-102

4. Consequences of a Changing Atmosphere

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 103-103

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   2. Is the Oxidising Capacity of the Troposphere Changing?

      • K.-H. Becker, I. Barnes, L. Ruppert, P. Wiesen

      Pages 105-132

   3. Five-Year Record of Ozone at Mt. Brocken (Germany) — Implications for Changing Heterogeneous Chemistry

      • D. Möller, K. Acker, D. Kalaß, W. Wieprecht

      Pages 133-139

   4. Acid Rain — Gone?

      • D. Möller

      Pages 141-178

5. Back Matter

   Pages 179-185

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This is an extended version of lectures that were held at the summer workshop Atmosphiirische Umweltforschung im Spannungsfeld zwischen Technik und Natur (At­ mospheric Environmental Research between Technology and Nature) at the Techni­ 16, 1996. We were very happy to have Paul J. Crutzen, cal University in Cottbus on July winner of the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1995, presenting the key lecture on glo­ bally changing chemistry in the atmosphere. Over the last decades, atmospheric chem­ istry has been established step by step, not just as an applied discipline of chemistry, but also as a key discipline for our understanding of air pollution, biogeochemical cycling, and climactic processes as well. In fact, the new definition of meteorology as the science of physics and chemistry of the atmosphere expresses this development very well. The chemistry of the atmosphere is strongly influenced by anthropogenic emissions, even on a global scale. As a result of emissions and chemical reactions, the chemical composition of the atmosphere influences the ecosystems directly via depo­ sition of trace substances, and indirectly by changing the physical climate. Therefore, in this book we combined state-of-the-art lectures describing the physical and chemi­ cal status of the atmosphere and selected issues representing the interface between atmosphere, technology and nature. Oxidising capacity, heterogeneous processes and acidity still remain as key issues in atmospheric chemistry, even in regions where efficient air control measures have been adopted resulting in reduction of primary atmospheric pollutants.

• Acid rain
• Luft
• Niedergang
• Ozon
• Ozone depletion
• Säure
• Verschmutzung
• Wald
• acidity
• air
• decline
• forest
• ozone
• pollution
• air pollution and air quality

• Lehrstuhl für Luftchemie und Luftreinhaltung, Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus, Cottbus, Germany

  Detlev Möller

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