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Global Atmospheric Chemical Change

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  • © 1994

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Editors:
  1. C. N. Hewitt

    1. Institute of Environmental and Biological Sciences, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK

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  2. W. T. Sturges

    1. Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA
      Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics Laboratory, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Boulder, USA

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Chemical Changes of the Atmosphere on Geological and Recent Time Scales

    • Peter Warneck
    Pages 1-52

  3. Global Climate Change due to Radiatively Active Gases

    • Donald J. Wuebbles
    Pages 53-92

  4. Global Climate Change due to Aerosols

    • Othmar Preining
    Pages 93-122

  5. Stratospheric Ozone Change

    • Jack A. Kaye, Charles H. Jackman
    Pages 123-168

  6. Tropospheric Ozone: Distribution and Sources

    • Fred C. Fehsenfeld, Shaw C. Liu
    Pages 169-231

  7. Environmental Acidification

    • Peter Brimblecombe
    Pages 233-270

  8. Global Change in Atmospheric Metal Cycles

    • Patrick Buat-Ménard
    Pages 271-311

  9. Natural and Anthropogenic Organic Compounds in the Global Atmosphere

    • E. L. Atlas, S. M. Li, L. J. Standley, R. A. Hites
    Pages 313-381

  10. Atmospheric Radioactivity and Its Variations

    • J. A. Garland, R. S. Cambray, C. E. Johnson
    Pages 383-421

  11. Political and Legislative Control of Global Air Pollution

    • John Firor, Steven L. Rhodes
    Pages 423-452

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 453-470
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Air pollution has historically been viewed as a local or regional scale problem with attention focused on acute episodes such as the sulphur dioxide and smoke smogs of London in the 1950s and 1960s and the photochemical smogs of southern California first recognized by Haagen­ Smit in the early 1950s. In recent years, however, it has become apparent that human activity has, and still is, changing the chemical composition of the atmosphere on a global scale. The composition of the atmosphere has seen enormous changes due to natural processes since the formation of the planet. Data obtained from air bubbles trapped in polar ice are beginning to reveal information about these changes over the last tens of thousands of years and geochemical models of the evolution of the Earth give us insights into the changes over much longer periods of time. Perhaps the crucial differences between these natural changes and those now being induced by man are their rel­ ative rates of change. The magnitude of present day fluxes of some com­ pounds released as air pollutants is in some cases much larger than those arising naturally. In other cases, for example carbon dioxide, the an­ thropogenic emission rates are small compared with that of the natural cycle, but the kinetics of the system are such that the steady state concent­ rations of the compounds in the atmosphere are now being perturbed.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute of Environmental and Biological Sciences, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK

    C. N. Hewitt

  • Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA

    W. T. Sturges

  • Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics Laboratory, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Boulder, USA

    W. T. Sturges

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Global Atmospheric Chemical Change

  • Editors: C. N. Hewitt, W. T. Sturges

  • Series Title: Environmental Management Series

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-3714-8

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1994

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-412-53870-4Due: 22 July 1998

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-015-3716-2Published: 13 November 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-015-3714-8Published: 11 November 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 470

  • Number of Illustrations: 37 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Monitoring/Environmental Analysis

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