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Ozone Layer Solid Research
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. THE STRATOSPHERE
1.1) What is the stratosphere?
1.2) How is the composition of air described?
1.3) How does the composition of the atmosphere change with
2. THE OZONE LAYER
2.1) How is ozone created?
2.2) How much ozone is in the layer, and what is a
2.3) How is ozone distributed in the stratosphere?
2.4) How does the ozone layer work?
2.5) What sorts of natural variations does the ozone layer show?
2.5.a) Regional and Seasonal Variation
2.5.b) Year-to-year variations.
2.6) What are CFC's?
2.7) How do CFC's destroy ozone?
2.8) What is an Ozone Depletion Potential?
2.9) What about HCFC's and HFC's? Do they destroy ozone?
2.10) *IS* the ozone layer getting thinner?
2.11) Is the middle-latitude ozone loss due to CFC emissions?
2.12) If the ozone is lost, won't the UV light just penetrate
2.13) Do Space Shuttle launches damage the ozone layer?
2.14) Will commercial supersonic aircraft damage the ozone layer?
2.15) What is being done about ozone depletion?
3. REFERENCES FOR PART I
Introductory Reading
Books and Review Articles
More Specialized References
Internet Resources
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Subject: 1. THE STRATOSPHERE
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Subject: 1.1) What is the stratosphere?
The stratosphere extends from about 15 km to 50 km. In the
stratosphere temperature _increases_ with altitude, due to the
absorption of UV light by oxygen and ozone. This creates a global
inversion layer which impedes vertical motion into and within
the stratosphere - since warmer air lies above colder air, convection
is inhibited. The word stratosphere is related to the word
stratification or layering.
The stratosphere is often compared to the troposphere, which is
the atmosphere below about 15 km. The boundary - called the
tropopause - between these regions is quite sharp, but its
precise location varies between ~9 and ~18 km, depending upon
latitude and season. The prefix tropo refers to change: the
troposphere is the part of the atmosphere in which weather occurs.
This results in rapid mixing of tropospheric air.
[Wayne] [Wallace and Hobbs]
Above the stratosphere lie the mesosphere, ranging from ~50 to
~100 km, in which temperature decreases with altitude; the
thermosphere, ~100-400 km, in which temperature increases
with altitude again, and the exosphere, beyond ~400 km, which
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