The Neutral Upper Atmosphere

✍ Scribed by S. N. Ghosh (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 212
• Series: Astrophysics and Space Science Library 249
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

After World War II, Professor S.K. Mitra wrote a comprehensive book called The Upper Atmosphere, which dealt with information available from ground-based and balloon-borne experiments. As a result, topics such as day airglow were investigated and further ground-based experiments using incoherent back-scattering were carried out. These activities resulted in new information on the ozonosphere.

The dramatic discovery of ozone holes forms a new and exciting chapter in the discovery of atmospheric processes. While dealing with the limits of the atmosphere, reference may be made to interstellar molecules whose discovery has raised considerable scientific curiosity. Knowledge of the solar-terrestrial relationship advanced a great deal when more information on solar radiation became available by measuring higher energy photons in the UV, EUV, and even X-ray regimes.

All this information is incorporated in this volume and presented under the title The Neutral Upper Atmosphere.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Atmospheric Regions, Their Constituents and Chemistry....Pages 1-22
Pressure and Density Distributions in the Terrestrial Atmosphere....Pages 23-36
Atmospheric Ozone, its Depletion and the Antarctic Ozone Hole....Pages 37-59
Effects of Solar UV, EUV and X-Ray Radiation on the Upper Atmosphere....Pages 61-82
Airglow I: Four Main Airglow Emissions....Pages 83-125
Airglow II....Pages 127-146
The Limit of the Atmosphere and the Space Beyond....Pages 147-173
Life Related Molecules and Masers in Space....Pages 175-195
Back Matter....Pages 197-205

✦ Subjects

Meteorology/Climatology; Astrophysics and Astroparticles