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

dc.contributor.authorZander, R.
dc.contributor.authorMahieu, E.
dc.contributor.authorDemoulin, P.
dc.contributor.authorDuchatelet, P.
dc.contributor.authorRoland, G.
dc.contributor.authorServais, C.
dc.contributor.authorDe Mazière, M.
dc.contributor.authorReimann, S.
dc.contributor.authorRinsland, C.P.
dc.date2008
dc.date.accessioned2016-09-21T11:43:37Z
dc.date.available2016-09-21T11:43:37Z
dc.identifier.urihttps://orfeo.belnet.be/handle/internal/4344
dc.descriptionThe 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.
dc.languageeng
dc.titleOur changing atmosphere: Evidence based on long-term infrared solar observations at the Jungfraujoch since 1950
dc.typeArticle
dc.subject.frascatiPhysical sciences
dc.audienceScientific
dc.subject.freeClimate change
dc.subject.freeFertilizers
dc.subject.freeInfrared spectroscopy
dc.subject.freePhotometry
dc.subject.freeRemote sensing
dc.subject.freeAtmospheric composition changes
dc.subject.freeInfrared remote sensing
dc.subject.freeMontreal and Kyoto Protocols
dc.subject.freeAstrophysics
dc.subject.freechlorine
dc.subject.freechlorofluorocarbon
dc.subject.freefertilizer
dc.subject.freefluorinated hydrocarbon
dc.subject.freenitrogen
dc.subject.freeatmospheric pollution
dc.subject.freeclimate change
dc.subject.freeconcentration (composition)
dc.subject.freefertilizer application
dc.subject.freeinfrared spectroscopy
dc.subject.freeKyoto Protocol
dc.subject.freeMontreal Protocol
dc.subject.freemountain region
dc.subject.freenitrogen
dc.subject.freephotolysis
dc.subject.freeremote sensing
dc.subject.freeair monitoring
dc.subject.freeair pollution
dc.subject.freealtitude
dc.subject.freearticle
dc.subject.freeatmospheric radioactivity
dc.subject.freecatalysis
dc.subject.freeenvironmental release
dc.subject.freefertilizer application
dc.subject.freeindustrial waste
dc.subject.freeozone layer
dc.subject.freephotolysis
dc.subject.freephotometry
dc.subject.freepollution monitoring
dc.subject.freepriority journal
dc.subject.freesolar radiation
dc.subject.freestratosphere
dc.subject.freeSwitzerland
dc.subject.freeultraviolet radiation
dc.subject.freeAir Pollutants
dc.subject.freeAtmosphere
dc.subject.freeEnvironmental Monitoring
dc.subject.freeGases
dc.subject.freeHistory, 20th Century
dc.subject.freeHistory, 21st Century
dc.subject.freeInfrared Rays
dc.subject.freeSolar System
dc.subject.freeSpectroscopy, Fourier Transform Infrared
dc.subject.freeSwitzerland
dc.subject.freeBern [Switzerland]
dc.subject.freeCentral Europe
dc.subject.freeEurasia
dc.subject.freeEurope
dc.subject.freeJungfraujoch
dc.subject.freeSwitzerland
dc.source.titleScience of the Total Environment
dc.source.volume391
dc.source.issue2-3
dc.source.page184-195
Orfeo.peerreviewedYes
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.scitotenv.2007.10.018
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-37649022757


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