The 3 primary roles of Ozone (O3)
- absorbing UV radiation
- absorbing Earth's longwave radiation
- being a surface pollutant
Where Ozone most concentrated
The stratosphere
The 3 most degrading compounds for the ozone layer
CFCs, nitrous oxide, bromine compounds
What winds and stability control the rate of
the rate of mixing pollutants with clean air
What atmospheric aerosols are
solids or liquids suspended in the air
What primary aerosols are
aerosols emitted directly into the atmosphere
The 2 probable sources of Earth's, Mars', and Venus' primitive atmosphere
outgassing and comets and asteroids
What our was likely most of our primitive atmosphere
Water vapour and CO2
Processes that contributed to our current atmosphere
Atmospheric thinning and photosynthesis
The hypothesis that proposes the Earth-Atmosphere systems are self-regulating and work to maintain ideal conditions for life to continue
The Gaia hypothesis
The other name for Boyle's Law
Constant temperature
The other name for Charles's Law
Constant pressure
The two gas laws with directly proportional variable and temperature on the x-axis
Charles's Law (constant pressure) and constant volume
The relationship between the pressure of a gas, with constant temperature, if you increase its volume
Inversely proportional
Define an ideal gas.
a gas which has no attractive forces between molecules
The variable that replaces volume in the ideal gas equation in atmospheric sciences
density
the temperature that dry air would need to be in order to have the same density as the actual air
Virtual temperature (Tv)
A summary of the 2 properties of ideal gasses
Air is compressible and warm air is less dense than cold air
The height above the surface at which warm air will have more pressure than cold air
Any height