The Neutral Upper Atmosphere /

After World War II, Professor S.K. Mitra wrote a comprehensive book called The Upper Atmosphere, which dealt with information available from ground-based and balloon-borne experiments. As a result, topics such as day airglow were investigated and further ground-based experiments using incoherent bac...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ghosh, S. N.
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2002.
Series:Astrophysics and space science library ; 249.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • 1. Atmospheric Regions, their Constituents and Chemistry
  • 2. Pressure and Density Distributions In Terrestrial Atmosphere
  • 3. Atmospheric Ozone, Its Depletion and Antarctic Ozone Hole
  • 4. Effects of Solar UV, EUV and X-ray Radiations on Upper Atmosphere
  • 5. Airglow I Four Main Airglow Emissions
  • 6. Other Airglow Emissions and Metastable Atoms and Molecules
  • 7. The Limit of Atmosphere and the Space Beyond
  • 8. Life Related Molecules and Masers in Space.