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Since the 1950’s, research in atmospheric sciences has been largely driven by the community’s response to a series of environmental problems that arose from the expanding economy and mobility of human society. The most prominent of these well known issues are ‘London Smog’ (e.g. TRAP45), ‘Los Angeles Smog’ (Haagen-Smit, 1952), ‘Acid Rain’ (Charlson and Rhode, 1982), Tropospheric Ozone Increase (Volz and Kley, 1988; Staehelin et al., 1994, see Fig. 1a+b), ‘Forest Decline’, ‘Stratospheric Ozone Loss’ (Molina and Rowland, 1974), the ‘Ozone Hole’ (Farman et al., 1985) and, last but not least, ‘Global Warming’ (Arrhenius, 1896; IPCC, 1992).
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Platt, U., Volz-Thomas, A. (2001). Shaping the Future of Atmospheric Science. In: Midgley, P.M., Reuther, M., Williams, M. (eds) Transport and Chemical Transformation in the Troposphere. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-56722-3_4
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