Monitoring Atmospheric Composition
Week 3 – Large scale changes – Ozone and GHGs
A look at GHGs and climate change, ozone and CFCs, and other types of in situ measurements including high altitude balloons and commercial aircraft
This topic looks at how we monitor and model greenhouse gases, which is pivotal in the monitoring and management of climate change.
This topic looks at the role of Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and ozone concentrations over Antarctica.
Methane is one of the most potent greenhouse gases in Earth’s atmosphere and measurements of its atmospheric concentration are vital to the monitoring of climate change.
In this topic Philippe Cocquerez will introduce you to high altitude balloon measurements of the atmosphere.
In this topic Frederic Thoumieux looks at high altitude balloon measurements in more depth.
This topic looks at how commercial aircraft can be utilised for monitoring the atmosphere.
Further detail about data acquired by the IAGOS programme, with Hannah Clark.
The Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer is a Multilateral Environmental Agreement that was agreed upon at the Vienna Conference of 1985 and entered into force in 1988.
When studying carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere it is important to know where it is now, but it is also vital to know the sources and sinks in order to understand processes that control the amount of the greenhouse gas in the atmosphere.
Week 3 end of week exercise and test
