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Summary
Summary
This volume covers topics relating reactive atmospheric chemistry, pathways for material transport within the atmosphere, and exchanges with the land, biota, oceans, and solid earth. The emphasis is on species of relevance to global climate and global chemical budgets, as well as on the application of geochemical methods, such as isotope techniques, for deciphering pathways and rates of material exchange within the atmosphere and with other reservoirs. The topics covered here have long histories, related to their importance for problems of global climate change, the ozone layers, and other global impacts on humanity.
Author Notes
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For more than a decade, my research group has been engaged in measuring changes in atmospheric oxygen (O2) concentration. Oxygen is closely linked to carbon dioxide by photosynthesis, respiration, and combustion reactions. We have shown that oxygen concentrations in the clean atmosphere vary with season and are slowly decreasing from year to year. By measuring these changes along with changes in carbon dioxide, we can learn about the fate of the carbon dioxide emitted each year by humans: How much remains in the air? How much enters the oceans? How much is taken up by land plants? Recently, I have also been engaged in developing theories for why atmospheric carbon dioxide was lower during Pleistocene glacial periods, and why the global climate was also highly unstable during these times.
E-mail: rkeeling@ucsd.edu
Table of Contents
| Executive Editors' Foreword | p. ix |
| Contributors to Volume 4 | p. xiii |
| Volume Editor's Introduction | p. xv |
| 4.01 Ozone, Hydroxyl Radical, and Oxidative Capacity | p. 1 |
| 4.02 Tropospheric Halogen Chemistry | p. 21 |
| 4.03 Global Methane Biogeochemistry | p. 65 |
| 4.04 Tropospheric Aerosols | p. 91 |
| 4.05 Biomass Burning: The Cycling of Gases and Particulates from the Biosphere to the Atmosphere | p. 143 |
| 4.06 Non-mass-dependent Isotopic Fractionation Processes: Mechanisms and Recent Observations in Terrestrial and Extra-terrestrial Environments | p. 159 |
| 4.07 The Stable Isotopic Composition of Atmospheric CO[subscript 2] | p. 175 |
| 4.08 Water Stable Isotopes: Atmospheric Composition and Applications in Polar Ice Core Studies | p. 213 |
| 4.09 Radiocarbon | p. 245 |
| 4.10 Natural Radionuclides in the Atmosphere | p. 261 |
| 4.11 The History of Planetary Degassing as Recorded by Noble Gases | p. 281 |
| 4.12 The Origin of Noble Gases and Major Volatiles in the Terrestrial Planets | p. 319 |
| Subject Index | p. 349 |
