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Atmospheric

            
             The silver grey curtains were thrust to the dark pink coloured window pailing which lay to the left of the window. The sunlight came pouring in touching everything in sight. It even seeped through the cylindrical bars which stood vertically around the perimeter of my tiny mattress like the prison bars in a jail cell. I sat up in my bed and rubbed my eyes, letting them adjust themselves to the brightness of the light shining through the window. I then carefully stood up in my cot, holding onto the bars and looked around me, smiling.
             This is my bedroom. Not only is it my bedroom but it's also the sleeping domain of my parents. After all, I am only a baby! I can't sleep by myself!.
             My parents slept in a bed next to me. It was a squishy, bouncy waterbed encased in a dark brown smoothly textured wood frame. I spent many hours of excitement bouncing on that bed, only stopping when the bouncing caused the bed to burst. But it had always been repaired.
             The peachy pink painted room was enormous! It wasn't very spacious though because the room had been filled with towering cupboards and bookcases stuffed with books.
             I could still sense a faint smell of smoke which was most probably coming from the fireplace which extended out from the wall to my left as I faced the window. That smell was overcome by the smell of pancakes from the kitchen. Who knows, maybe it was my mum's cooking that smelt like smoke.
             I turned 180 degrees to my left to look out our old and busted door. My mother was coming to pick me up. It's breakfast time!.
             NIGHT.
             After a very exhausting day it was finally time for bed. My mother lay me down in my cot with my bottle filled with milk and then returned to the lounge room to watch television with my father.
             As soon as she was gone I stood up in my cot and stared around my room once again. It was an icy cold winter night, so the window had been shut, the curtains had been closed and the blazing fire had been brought to life to fight the cold with it's warmth from behind it's cage.


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1. Atmospheric Structure

... (~50 km), which is marked by a decrease in temperature. Because the air temperature in the stratosphere increases with altitude, it does not cause convection and has a stabilizing effect on atmospheric conditions in the region. Ozone plays the major role in regulating the thermal regime of the stratosphere, as water vapor content within the layer is very low. Temperature increases with ... sampled. For example, O3, CO2, and chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) are measured in parts per million by volume (ppmv), parts per billion by volume (ppbv) or parts per trillion by volume (pptv). Atmospheric ...

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2. Moisture & Atmospheric Stability

... atmosphere depends on the temperature of rising air relative to the temperature of the stationary surrounding air that it passes through, which varies from place to place and with changing atmospheric conditions. Air stability determines whether clouds form when air is uplifted, and the type of cloud." Stable atmosphere forms when warmer surfaces rise, therefore expanding and cooling which causes the ... ...

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3. Global Warming

... carbon dioxide - the "business as usual- scenario - CO2 concentrations would likely double by 2065. According to the IPCC, increased CO2 concentrations are significant not only because atmospheric CO2 deflects infrared radiation back to earth (the greenhouse effect) but also because the retained heat from such deflection has an "amplifying- effect on climate patterns. For example ... key questions have been raised regarding the ICPP's evidence, methodologies, and forecasts. A major issue is whether there is, in fact, a linkage between increasing levels of atmospheric CO2 concentrations a...

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4. Composition of the Earth's Atmosphere

... that existed in much smaller concentrations in the atmosphere, such as ozone and carbon dioxide. The concentrations of these gases, while small, varied widely from place to place. In fact, atmospheric gases are often divided up into the major, constant components and the highly variable components, as shown in Table 1 and Table 2. Table 1: Constant Components. Proportions remain the same ... Table 2: Variable Components. (Amounts vary over time and location.) Although both nitrogen and oxygen are essential to human life on the planet, they have little effect on weather and other atmospher...

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5. Weather On Other Planets

... Martian Atmosphere The Martian atmosphere is very thin and made of carbon dioxide (95.3%), nitrogen (2.7%), argon (1.6%), and traces of oxygen and water. The atmospheric pressure is so low that it is less than 1% of Earth's. Mars does have a greenhouse effect but it only raises surface temperatures by 5*K ... period temperatures drop so low that carbon dioxide turns from a gas to a solid. The massive amount of frozen carbon dioxide decreases Mars" atmospheric pressure by 25% (Holmes). The ground surface becomes darker during the autumn and winter seasons because carbon dioxide gas freeze...

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6. Global Warming

... subject to exploitation is essentially unlimited. Economics and policy on emission of greenhouse gases will govern how rapidly CO2 builds up before either humankind or nature acts to stabilize the atmospheric burden of greenhouse gases. In addition to CO2, another 20 or so greenhouse gases have been identified. At present the most important are methane (CH4), man made chlorofluorocarbons CFC- ... agricultural fertilizers. Tropospheric ozone is photochemically produced in the atmosphere as a result of the release of methane, carbon monoxide, and other hydrocarbons, due largely to emissio...

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7. The Disappearing Ozone Layer

... particularly in the DNA-damaging waveband. Ozone depletion is one of several factors, including cloud cover and solar elevation, which affect ground level UV radiation. An examination of atmospheric changes in Australia from 1979 to 1992 has shown that the deseasonalized time series of UVR exposures were a linear function of ozone and cloud cover anomalies. In tropical Australia ... of satellite measuring systems allowed reliable measurement of UVR. However, satellite measurements may not accurately reflect ground level UVR due to failure to take adequate account of lower atmospheric ch...

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8. Depletion Of The Ozone Layer

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9. Air Pollution

... for the next two years. Unlike pollutants from human activity, however, naturally occurring pollutants tend to remain in the atmosphere for a short time and do not lead to permanent atmospheric change. Once in the atmosphere, pollutants often undergo chemical reactions that produce additional harmful compounds. Air pollution is subject to weather patterns that can trap it in valleys or blow ... again. A single chlorine atom can destroy up to 100,000 ozone molecules in the stratosphere. Other pollutants, including nitrous oxide from fertilizers and the pesticide methyl bromide, also attac...

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10. Understanding Common Air Pollutants

... (Harrison, 2004). Nitrogen dioxide (NO2) is known to form quickly from vehicles and power plants. Fertilizers are also known to contribute to atmospheric NOx. Molecules of the nitrogen and oxygen of the air combine at very high temperatures to form nitric oxide, NO, a colorless, non-flammable ... form compounds with the water molecules during precipitation. Agricultural fertilizers and the use of nitrogen fixing plants are also known to contribute to atmospheric NOx by promoting nitrogen fixation by micro-organisms. In addition to contributing to the formation of ground-level ozone, and ...

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