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Natural and Anthropogenic Organic Compounds in the Global Atmosphere

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Global Atmospheric Chemical Change

Abstract

Recent advances in measurement science and technology have allowed scientists to probe the chemical composition of the earths atmosphere in increasingly greater detail and with greater precision than ever before possible. This is particularly true for studies of the organic chemical composition of the atmosphere. Measurements of organic chemicals have been made in a variety of atmospheric environments around the globe: from urban and rural sites on the continents to the most remote areas over the ocean, from ground level to the upper levels of the troposphere and into the stratosphere. Results of these studies over the last few decades have been illuminating and even surprising, and in some ways they have shaped the direction of atmospheric chemical research. For example, thesteady increase of tropospheric chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) has been recognized as a critical factor in seasonal polar ozone depletion (see Chapter 2). The relationship between ozone and CFCs is now well documented, but it should be realized that CFCs are present in the atmosphere at mixing ratios below 1 ppbv (parts per billion by volume; billion = 109), and the chemical measurement technology which allows the sensitive, accurate and precise determination of these molecules has been available only in the last several decades. As discussed in other chapters of this volume, improved methods of chemical analysis, too, have revealed temporal trends in the concentration of a variety of different trace gases which can affect the radiation balance of the earth and may lead to the so-called `greenhouse warming effect. In addition to radiative effects, both theoretical and experimental studies demonstrate that a variety of organic chemicals are directly involved in the processes which control the formation and destruction of major tropospheric oxidants such as HO, HO2, RO2, NO3 and ozone.

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Atlas, E.L., Li, S.M., Standley, L.J., Hites, R.A. (1994). Natural and Anthropogenic Organic Compounds in the Global Atmosphere. In: Hewitt, C.N., Sturges, W.T. (eds) Global Atmospheric Chemical Change. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-3714-8_8

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