Atmospheric chemistry: Fire and ice

Fire and ice.

hanks to the release of Al Gore's latest effort on global warming – this time in book and movie form – climate change is the hot topic in press rooms around the globe. It isn't the first time. The media have warned about impending climate doom four different times in the last 100 years. Only they can't decide if mankind will die from warming or cooling. As the noise from the controversy has inc...

Atmospheric chemistry.

T he field of atmospheric chemistry is very broad, both in the problems addressed and in the approaches taken. Thus, it includes laboratory and theoretical studies, field measurements, and modeling, and addresses chemistry from the lower to the upper atmosphere, in remote and polluted regions, from marine to continental areas, and both outdoors and indoors. Given this complexity, it is impossib...

Wildland fire emissions, carbon, and climate: Plume rise, atmospheric transport, and chemistry processes

This paper provides an overview and summary of the current state of knowledge regarding critical atmospheric processes that affect the distribution and concentrations of greenhouse gases and aerosols emitted from wildland fires or produced through subsequent chemical reactions in the atmosphere. These critical atmospheric processes include the dynamics of plume rise, chemical reactions involvin...

4 Land and Vegetation Module 5 Atmospheric Chemistry Model 6 Ocean and Sea-ice Model

Atmospheric Chemistry and Greenhouse Gases