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    Our changing atmosphere: Evidence based on long-term infrared solar observations at the Jungfraujoch since 1950

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    Authors
    Zander, R.
    Mahieu, E.
    Demoulin, P.
    Duchatelet, P.
    Roland, G.
    Servais, C.
    De Mazière, M.
    Reimann, S.
    Rinsland, C.P.
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    Discipline
    Physical sciences
    Subject
    Climate change
    Fertilizers
    Infrared spectroscopy
    Photometry
    Remote sensing
    Atmospheric composition changes
    Infrared remote sensing
    Montreal and Kyoto Protocols
    Astrophysics
    chlorine
    chlorofluorocarbon
    fertilizer
    fluorinated hydrocarbon
    nitrogen
    atmospheric pollution
    climate change
    concentration (composition)
    fertilizer application
    infrared spectroscopy
    Kyoto Protocol
    Montreal Protocol
    mountain region
    nitrogen
    photolysis
    remote sensing
    air monitoring
    air pollution
    altitude
    article
    atmospheric radioactivity
    catalysis
    environmental release
    fertilizer application
    industrial waste
    ozone layer
    photolysis
    photometry
    pollution monitoring
    priority journal
    solar radiation
    stratosphere
    Switzerland
    ultraviolet radiation
    Air Pollutants
    Atmosphere
    Environmental Monitoring
    Gases
    History, 20th Century
    History, 21st Century
    Infrared Rays
    Solar System
    Spectroscopy, Fourier Transform Infrared
    Switzerland
    Bern [Switzerland]
    Central Europe
    Eurasia
    Europe
    Jungfraujoch
    Switzerland
    Audience
    Scientific
    Date
    2008
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    Description
    The Institute of Astrophysics of the University of Liège has been present at the High Altitude Research Station Jungfraujoch, Switzerland, since the late 1940s, to perform spectrometric solar observations under dry and weakly polluted high-mountain conditions. Several solar atlases of photometric quality, extending altogether from the near-ultra-violet to the middle-infrared, were produced between 1956 and 1994, first with grating spectrometers then with Fourier transform instruments. During the early 1970s, scientific concerns emerged about atmospheric composition changes likely to set in as a consequence of the growing usage of nitrogen-containing agricultural fertilisers and the industrial production of chlorine-bearing compounds such as the chlorofluorocarbons and hydro-chlorofluorocarbons. Resulting releases to the atmosphere with ensuing photolysis in the stratosphere and catalytic depletion of the protective ozone layer prompted a worldwide consortium of chemical manufacturing companies to solicit the Liège group to help in clarifying these concerns by undertaking specific observations with its existing Jungfraujoch instrumentation. The following pages evoke the main steps that led from quasi full sun-oriented studies to priority investigations of the Earth's atmosphere, in support of both the Montreal and the Kyoto Protocols.
    Citation
    Zander, R.; Mahieu, E.; Demoulin, P.; Duchatelet, P.; Roland, G.; Servais, C.; De Mazière, M.; Reimann, S.; Rinsland, C.P. (2008). Our changing atmosphere: Evidence based on long-term infrared solar observations at the Jungfraujoch since 1950. , Science of the Total Environment, Vol. 391, Issue 2-3, 184-195, DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2007.10.018.
    Identifiers
    uri: https://orfeo.belnet.be/handle/internal/4344
    doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2007.10.018
    scopus: 2-s2.0-37649022757
    Type
    Article
    Peer-Review
    Yes
    Language
    eng
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