Chemical kinetics and Earth's atmosphere
Abstract
A review of current knowledge concerning elementary chemical processes transpiring in the atmosphere is given. A table summarizes the stages in development of chemical-kinetic concepts concerning these processes in the three principal layers of the atmosphere. In the ionosphere reactions with the participation of charged particles are most important. In the stratosphere reactions of products of photodissociation processes (free radicals and atoms in ground and excited states) are predominant. In the troposphere the reactions involve unstable molecules with some (but considerably less than in the upper layers) quantity of free radicals and ions. Each of the three layers is examined separately. Experimental methods and research apparatus currently in use are discussed (included are mass spectral methods, electron paramagnetic resonance, laser magnetic resonance, laser resonance, intraresonator laser spectrosocpy and others).
- Publication:
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USSR Report Earth Sciences JPRS UES
- Pub Date:
- December 1984
- Bibcode:
- 1984RpESc......126T
- Keywords:
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- Atmospheric Chemistry;
- Earth Atmosphere;
- Reaction Kinetics;
- Atmospheric Composition;
- Atmospheric Physics;
- Charged Particles;
- Cosmic Rays;
- Spectroscopy