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The Role Of Solar Ultraviolet Radiation
John . Ed(S): Calkins
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Paperback. Editor(s): Calkins, John. Series: NATO Conference Series / IV Marine Sciences. Num Pages: 740 pages, 45 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: PG; WNCS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 37. Weight in Grams: 1392.
The inspiration for this monograph derived from the realization that human technical capacity has become so great that we can, even without malice, substantially modify and damage the gigantic and remote outer limit of our planet, the stratosphere. Above the atmosphere of our ordinary experience, the stratosphere is a tenuous layer of gas, blocked from rapid exchange with the troposphere, some twenty kilometers above the surface of the earth, seldom reached by humans, and yet a fragile shell which shields life on earth from a band of solar radiation of demonstrable injurious potential. It is immediately obvious that if stratospheric ... Read more
The inspiration for this monograph derived from the realization that human technical capacity has become so great that we can, even without malice, substantially modify and damage the gigantic and remote outer limit of our planet, the stratosphere. Above the atmosphere of our ordinary experience, the stratosphere is a tenuous layer of gas, blocked from rapid exchange with the troposphere, some twenty kilometers above the surface of the earth, seldom reached by humans, and yet a fragile shell which shields life on earth from a band of solar radiation of demonstrable injurious potential. It is immediately obvious that if stratospheric ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1982
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
Number of pages
740
Condition
New
Series
NATO Conference Series / IV Marine Sciences
Number of Pages
724
Place of Publication
New York, NY, United States
ISBN
9781468481358
SKU
V9781468481358
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