GG101 Lecture Notes - Environment And Climate Change Canada, Nitric Acid, Ozone Depletion
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Lecture outline: composition, vertical structure, function, atmospheric issues. These notes are not complete, your must supplement these notes with your readings. Use these notes as a guide to focus your study. This lecture reviews materials covered in chapter 3 of geosystems. Atmospheric composition, temperature, and function (2nd edition pages 64 - 70, 3rd. Edition pages 62 - 69) and the materials under variable atmospheric components (2nd. Edition pages 70 - 86, 3rd edition pages 69 - 80). In the notes below, the figure numbers in bold refer to the 3rd edition, if the figure number in the second edition is different, it is given in unbolded text). The atmosphere is the gaseous envelope that surrounds the earth, it is a mixture of gases and suspended liquids and solids. Aerosols are liquids and solids (but not water or ice), that are suspended in the atmosphere: composition. The atmosphere is composed of a mixture of gases and suspended liquids and solids.
