Atmospheric chemistry

Atmospheric chemistry

A scientific study of the chemistry of the Earth's atmosphere and that of other planets.

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Foehn

Chemistry; Atmospheric chemistry

A warm, dry wind on the lee side of a mountain range that owes its relatively high temperatures largely to adiabatic heating during descent down mountain slopes, a descent that compresses and thereby ...

Magnetosphere

Chemistry; Atmospheric chemistry

A volume outside of the Earth's atmosphere that is a magnetic field. For the Earth, this field is dipolar, acting like a large bar magnet. This field surrounds Earth like a giant bubble, helping to ...

Acid rain

Chemistry; Atmospheric chemistry

Acidified particulate matter in the atmosphere that is deposited by precipitation onto a surface, often eroding the surface away. This precipitation generally has a pH less than 5 and sometimes much ...

Air parcel

Chemistry; Atmospheric chemistry

A volume of air, the component makeup and concentrations of which remain relatively static, that tends to travel around the earth changing geographic location and position above earth as an intact ...

Precambrian

Chemistry; Atmospheric chemistry

All geologic time from the beginning of Earth history to 570 million years ago. Also refers to the rocks that formed in that epoch.

1,1,2-trichlorofluoroethane

Chemistry; Atmospheric chemistry

C 2 Cl 3 F 3 (CFC-113), a chlorofluorocarbon with a long atmospheric lifetime (~85 years) and the third highest abundance in the Earth's atmosphere (behind CFC-11 and CFC-12). It has been used as a ...

Ecology

Chemistry; Atmospheric chemistry

Branch of biology which focuses on the relationships among various species and among the species and their environments. The basic units for study are the species (all the organisms which are ...