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Tropospheric Photochemical and Photophysical Processes

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Tunable Lasers and Applications

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Our goal in this paper is to illustrate some areas where tunable lasers—IR, UV, and vacuum UV—might play a definitive role in achieving a significantly better understanding of the complex chemical and physical transformations occurring in the natural and polluted troposphere. Such an advancement in knowledge would not only be of fundamental scientific interest per se, but would also serve to greatly improve the quality and breadth of the technical data base upon which the air pollution control strategies of all of our countries should be founded.

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  1. Department of Chemistry and Statewide Air Pollution Research Center, University of California, Riverside, CA, 92502, USA

    J. N. Pitts Jr.

  2. Department of Chemistry, California State University, Fullerton, CA, 92634, USA

    B. J. Finlayson-Pitts

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  1. Quantum Electronics Group, MIT, Lincoln Laboratory, P.O. Box 73, 02173, Lexington, Massachusetts, USA

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  2. Division for Electronics, Norwegian Defence Research Establishment, P.O. Box 25, Kjeller, Norway

    Tycho Jaeger

  3. Division for Electronics, Electrooptics Group, Norwegian Defence Research Establishment, P.O. Box 25, Kjeller, Norway

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Pitts, J.N., Finlayson-Pitts, B.J. (1976). Tropospheric Photochemical and Photophysical Processes. In: Mooradian, A., Jaeger, T., Stokseth, P. (eds) Tunable Lasers and Applications. Springer Series in Optical Sciences, vol 3. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-37996-6_22

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