atmospheric monitoring Books
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Instrument Development for Atmospheric Research and Monitoring
The growth in our understanding of the production, transformation and loss of pollutants and trace substances in the atmosphere has followed closely the development of instrumentation for both in situ and remote measurements of the minute concentrations and fluxes of trace substances. In recent times the ...
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Atmospheric Corrosion
The compilation of papers provides a good cross section of the state of the art in atmospheric corrosion. Some of the topics addressed include the behavior of engineering materials, weathering steels, metals with metallic coatings, monitoring atmospheric exposure sites, and laboratory tests and their ...
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Earth Observation of Global Change
Satellites are being operationally used for monitoring atmospheric conditions, ice sheets and glaciar ...
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Giant Planets of Our Solar System
This book reviews the current state of knowledge of the atmospheres of the giant gaseous planets: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. The current theories of their formation are reviewed and their recently observed temperature, composition and cloud structures are contrasted and compared with simple ...
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Decadal Climate Variability
Variability, Predictability of the Atmosphere and Oceans from Days to Decades, and Mechanisms for Decadal ...
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Modern Astrometry
properties of optical instruments and a detailed description of the atmospheric effects on observations. A ...
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Infrasound Monitoring for Atmospheric Studies
), prohibiting atmospheric nuclear explosions worldwide. The infrasound network of the International ...
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Atmospheric and Biological Environmental Monitoring
The harmful impacts of pollution on atmospheric, terrestrial and aquatic environments can cause extreme temperature changes, clean water shortage, and increase toxicity. This book studies environmental pollution impacts, from the mechanism of toxic nanoparticles on the molecular level to the detection of trace ...
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Scientific Ballooning
The aim of this book is to introduce scientific ballooning to the many people who are interested in the use of balloons for scientific applications. The book offers a basic understanding of the engineering details and the scientific research giving rise to balloon activities going on today. Above all, the book will serve as a guidebook for young scientists and researchers seeking to become ...
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Future Perspectives of Space Plasma and Particle Instrumentation and International Collaborations
Future perspectives on space-borne/ground-based state-of-the-art scientific instruments, exploration space missions, and advanced modeling/simulation methods, are intensively discussed from multilateral viewpoints regarding solar-terrestrial physics, space plasma, upper atmospheric observations for the ...
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Flow and Creep in the Solar System: Observations, Modeling and Theory
The conference which generated the papers presented in this volume was very broad in scope, covering motions, both fluid and solid state, ranging from the scale of the solar corona to flow in sedimentary basins. The aims of this conference proceedings volume is to allow a comparison of these various flow regimes to obtain a fuller understanding of the processes and concepts involved. Much ...
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Atmospheric Chemistry
Atmospheric Chemistry provides readers with a basic knowledge of the chemistry of Earth's atmosphere, and an understanding of the role that chemical transformations play in this vital part of our environment. The composition of the 'natural' atmosphere (troposphere, stratosphere and mesosphere) is described in ...
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The Stratosphere and Its Role in the Climate System
This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the stratosphere and its role in our understanding of the climate system. The key dynamic, radiative, and chemical processes that determine the distribution of chemical compounds including ozone in the stratosphere are discussed. The chapters contributed by outstanding experts focus not only on fundamental aspects related to these issues, but ...
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Airglow as an Indicator of Upper Atmospheric Structure and Dynamics
The book summarizes international progress over the last few decades in upper atmosphere airglow research. Measurement methods, theoretical concepts and empirical models of a wide spectrum of upper atmospheric emissions and their variability are considered. The book contains a detailed bibliography of studies ...
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Variability of Air Temperature and Atmospheric Precipitation in the Arctic
This book presents for the first time a comprehensive analysis of various aspects of air temperature and atmospheric precipitation variability over a period of instrumental observation in the Arctic, using data from stations, updated to the year 2000. A summary is also provided of the current state of ...
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Observing Systems for Atmospheric Composition
The new challenge in atmospheric chemistry is to understand the intercontinental transport and transformation of gases and aerosols. To address this issue, a global observations systems network of ground based sites and aircraft measurement campaigns are highly requested by scientists. The book describes the ...
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Corrosion of Metals; Wear and Erosion
Tests, practices, and guides detail standard procedures, which measure atmospheric corrosion, stress corrosion cracking, corrosion fatigue, corrosion in natural waters and soil, and in-plant corrosion. New to this volume is a joint ASTM/NACE terminology standard. This volume also includes tests and practices on ...
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Corrosion of Metals; Wear and Erosion
Tests, practices, and guides detail standard procedures, which measure atmospheric corrosion, stress corrosion cracking, corrosion fatigue, corrosion in natural waters and soil, and in-plant corrosion. New to this volume is a joint ASTM/NACE terminology standard. This volume also includes tests and practices on ...
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Handbook of Micrometeorology
The Handbook of Micrometeorology is the most up-to-date reference for micrometeorological issues and methods related to the eddy covariance technique for estimating mass and energy exchange between the terrestrial biosphere and the atmosphere. It is intended to provide micrometeorologists, ecosystem ...
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