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The Ozone Layer From Discovery to Recovery

By: Guy P Brasseur(Author)
248 pages, 20 plates with colour illustrations; 20 b/w photos, 20 b/w illustrations
The Ozone Layer
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From the discovery of ozone in the eighteenth century, through the late twentieth-century international agreements to protect humanity from the destruction of ozone in the stratosphere, Guy P. Brasseur traces the evolution of our scientific knowledge on air quality issues and stratospheric chemistry and dynamics. The history of ozone research is marked by typical examples of the scientific method at work, perfectly illustrating how knowledge progresses. Hypotheses are contested and then eventually accepted or rejected; truths once believed to be universal and permanent can be called into question; and debates and disagreements between scientists are settled by information from laboratory and field experiments. Of course, the scientific method can also lead to new observations – in this case, the discovery of the ozone hole. This finding took researchers by surprise, leading to new investigations and research programs.

This first complete study of ozone research demonstrates the key role fundamental research plays in solving global environmental, climate, and human health problems. More importantly, it shows that the scientific method works. Convincing decision makers of research results that do not correspond to their values, or to the interests of certain business groups, stands to be the highest hurdle in using science to benefit humanity. Students, early-career scientists, and even specialists who do not know much about the history of their field will benefit from this big picture view, offered by a researcher who has played leadership roles in stewarding this science through decades of discovery.

Contents

1. The First Steps
2. The Presence of Ozone in the Atmosphere
3. Spectroscopic Determinations of Ozone
4. The First Theoretical Studies
5. Determination of the Vertical Distribution of Ozone
6. Advances in Theory
7. Ozone and Supersonic Aircraft
8. Ozone and Chlorofluorocarbons
9. The Antarctic Ozone Hole
10. Ozone in the Troposphere
11. A Success Story

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Biography

Guy P. Brasseur is director of the Atmospheric Chemistry Observations and Modeling Laboratory at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and is currently the chair of the Joint Science Committee of the World Climate Research Programme. He is also an external member of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology and a distinguished scholar at NCAR.

By: Guy P Brasseur(Author)
248 pages, 20 plates with colour illustrations; 20 b/w photos, 20 b/w illustrations
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