Earth & Environmental Science · Atmospheric Science & Meteorology
A topic within Atmospheric Science & Meteorology, itself one of 9 topics in that field and part of Earth & Environmental Science.
2 works
Daniel J. Jacob
Builds atmospheric chemistry from mass-balance box models rather than a survey of pollutants, so a reader learns to derive the concentration of any species in the atmosphere rather than memorise a list of them.
Mario J. Molina & F. Sherwood Rowland
Predicts that CFCs, inert everywhere else, reach the stratosphere intact and there catalytically destroy ozone one chlorine atom at a time, the paper that built the scientific case against CFCs a decade before the Antarctic hole was found.
link checked 17 Sept 2026