Introduction to Atmospheric Chemistry
Introduction to Atmospheric Chemistry
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DOI:
10.1007/978-4-431-55870-5_1
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2016
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H. Akimoto
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H. Akimoto
This chapter serves as an introduction to atmospheric chemistry. It provides an overview from the dawn of modern chemistry to the birth of atmospheric chemistry. Chemistry of the atmosphere has its roots to “air chemistry” in the second half of the eighteenth century, when modern chemistry also signified its dawn. Research on chemical reactions in the atmosphere stems from two broad streams—one from the chemistry of ozone layer in the stratosphere, and the another from air pollution and acid rain followed by photochemical air pollution.Evolution from “chemistry of the atmosphere” to “atmospheric chemistry” occurred in the middle of 1980s. “Atmospheric chemistry” sought to elucidate a series of processes related to global material cycle and budget including emissions, transport, transformation, deposition, and so on. The second half of the 1980s coincided with the evolution of the global environmental sciences, and atmospheric chemistry gained recognition as one of fundamental disciplines that were essential for understanding global changes brought about by human activities. While a number of excellent textbooks on atmospheric chemistry as a systems science are listed at the end of this chapter with a brief introduction of each book, the present book focuses on atmospheric reaction chemistry, which is one of fundamental elements of atmospheric chemistry.