ATM OCN 100 - Summer 1998 LECTURE 2A

6/5/98


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ATM OCN 100 - Summer 1998 LECTURE 2A

B. PRESENT EARTH’S ATMOSPHERE

B. PRESENT EARTH’S ATMOSPHERE (con’t).

VERTICAL COMPOSITION VARIATIONS (con’t).

CONSTITUENTS OF AIR in the HOMOSPHERE (Below 80 km)

PRINCIPAL FIXED GASES in the Homosphere

PRINCIPAL VARIABLE GASES in the Homosphere

ANTHROPOGENIC SUBSTANCES

AEROSOLS

PRINCIPAL VARIABLE GASES in the Heterosphere (above 80 km)

C. ORIGIN & EVOLUTION of Earth’s Atmosphere

ATMOSPHERIC ORIGIN & EVOLUTION (con’t)

D. ATMOSPHERES of OTHER PLANETS

PLANETARY COMPOSITION [Source: Densities from “Astronomical Almanac”]

E. VARIATION OF CHARGED PARTICLES WITH HEIGHT

MAGNETOSPHERE

Author: Edward J. Hopkins

Email: hopkins@meteor.wisc.edu

Home Page: http://www.meteor.wisc.edu/~hopkins/aos100

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