Atmospheric chemistry

Atmospheric chemistry

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

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Nitrogen fixation

Chemistry; Atmospheric chemistry

The bacteria assisted conversion of molecular nitrogen, N 2 , to ammonia.

Obliquity

Chemistry; Atmospheric chemistry

The axis of Earth's rotation tilted all year perpendicular to the plane of the Earth's orbit around the sun. The angle is 23. 5°. Because of this angle on December 22 the northern hemisphere has ...

Anticyclonic flow

Chemistry; Atmospheric chemistry

The air flow produced about a high pressure centre by the combination of two forces: the pressure gradient accelerating the air away from the centre and the Coriolis force acting inward. ...

Residence time

Chemistry; Atmospheric chemistry

The amount of time a substance can remain in a reservoir. The reservoir can be aquatic, atmospheric, or terrestrial. In atmospheric chemistry an example of reservoir time would be the amount of ...

Tropopause

Chemistry; Atmospheric chemistry

The area where the temperature in the troposphere no longer decreases, indicating the boundary between the troposphere and the stratosphere.

The light of the electromagnetic spectrum that we perceive with our naked eye. The wavelengths of light that we can see are between roughly 380 nanometers to 700 nanometers. Blue (shortest visible ...

Jet stream

Chemistry; Atmospheric chemistry

The major atmospheric air currents centres over the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, North America and over the Middle East. These systems are fairly robust from period to period, and across different ...