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Aeronomy of the Middle Atmosphere: Chemistry and Physics of the Stratosphere and Mesosphere

By Susan Solomon (auth.) , Guy Brasseur

Book information

Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Year
1984
ISBN
978-94-009-6403-7, 978-94-009-6401-3
DOI
10.1007/978-94-009-6401-3
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
19 MB (19565866 bytes)
Series
Atmospheric Sciences Library
Edition
1
Pages
444\458
Time added
2013-12-12 02:00:00
Meteorology/Climatology

Description

The reader may be surprised to learn that the word "aeronomy" is not found in many of the standard dictionaries of the English language (for exam­ ple. Webster's International dictionary). Yet the term would appear to exist, as evidenced by the affiliations of the two authors of this volume (Institut d'Aeronomie, Brussels, Belgium; Aeronomy Laboratory, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Boulder, CO, USA). Perhaps part of this obscu­ rity arises because aeronomy is a relatively new and evolving field of endeavor, with a history dating back no farther than about 1940. The Chambers dic­ tionary of science and technology provides the following definition: "aeronomy (Meteor. ). The branch of science dealing with the atmosphere of the Earth and the other planets with reference to their chemical com­ position, physical properties, relative motion,

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