Chemistry and Physics of Stratospheric Ozone

by Dessler

• ISBN13: 9780122120510
• ISBN10: 0122120515
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-06-26
• Publisher: Elsevier Science

Summary

Chemistry and Physics of Stratospheric Ozone will provide an in-depth account of chemical and physical properties of stratospheric ozone, which will be valuable to a wide audience. The research of the last decade has produced as many arguments as answers, and the author provides a good account of both the accepted and provocative resolutions. * Focuses on the important aspects of stratospheric ozone that are needed to understand most of the literature * Provides extensive discussion of the natural and human-induced changes to the "ozone layer" * Includes homework problems at the end of each chapter

Author Biography

Andrew Dessler received his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1994. He did his postdoctoral work at NASA Goddard and has been a research scientist at the University of Maryland since 1996.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Acknowledgments	ix
The Ozone Problem	1	(17)
The Ideal Gas Law	4	(1)
Ozone Morphology	5	(5)
The Decline of Ozone	10	(6)
In This Book...	16	(2)
Problems	16	(2)
Fundamentals of Stratospheric Chemistry	18	(23)
Kinetics	18	(10)
The Continuity Equation	28	(2)
Lifetimes, Time-scales, and Time Constants	30	(3)
Coordinate Systems	33	(8)
Problems	39	(2)
Ozone Production and Loss	41	(18)
Chapman Chemistry	41	(1)
The Odd-oxygen Family	42	(5)
Catalytic Loss Cycles	47	(5)
Odd-oxygen Production and Loss Rates	52	(7)
Problems	57	(2)
Chemical Families and Partitioning	59	(58)
Chemical Families	60	(1)
Odd Chlorine---Cly	61	(18)
Odd Nitrogen---Noy	79	(15)
Odd Hydrogen---Hox	94	(8)
Odd Bromine---Bry	102	(10)
Other Halogen Familes	112	(5)
Problems	115	(2)
Transport	117	(20)
Transport Into and Out of the Stratosphere	119	(7)
The General Circulation	126	(11)
Problems	136	(1)
Volcano!! Effects of the 1991 Eruption of Mount Pinatubo on the Stratosphere	137	(15)
Evolution of the Aerosol Surface Area from 1985 to 1997	137	(2)
Effect of an Increase in Aerosol Abundance	139	(10)
The Net Effect	149	(3)
Problems	151	(1)
Polar Chemistry	152	(32)
The Antarctic	152	(22)
The Arctic	174	(10)
Problems	183	(1)
Appendix	184	(5)
Terms and Definitions	184	(5)
References	189	(18)
Index	207