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DOI	10.1126/science.290.5490.299
	The ascent of atmospheric sciences
	Crutzen P.J.; Ramanathan V.
发表日期	2000
ISSN	0036-8075
起始页码	299
结束页码	304
卷号	290 期号:5490
英文摘要	Atmospheric science matters to everyone every day. It has been infiltrating public awareness lately for compelling reasons: the Antarctic ozone hole, global warming, and El Niño, a combined atmosphere-ocean phenomenon that causes severe weather. The first two are side effects of the industrial revolution, and El Niño is nature's warning against taking good weather for granted. Atmospheric science has become a multidisciplinary, high-tech activity rife with new and sophisticated instrumentation, computers, information technology, and measurement platforms, including satellites and aircraft. Air chemistry (1-4), including the prediction and subsequent verification that chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) destroy ozone, has recently moved to the field's forefront. Revelations about the susceptibility of people and ecosystems to both natural and humanly forced atmospheric changes also have been central. On a more purely scientific level, efforts to understand and predict the complex phenomenon of weather led to the discovery of chaos theory by meteorologist Edward Lorenz. Now, chaos theory helps physicists, chemists, biologists, economists, and many others striving to understand complex phenomena. A comprehensive story about the ascent of atmospheric sciences over the past few centuries would fill library shelves. In these few pages, we first chronicle only a few developments in chemistry and meteorology up to the early 1970s, before the possibility of human influence beyond the local scale became actualized. To illustrate how humanity's hand has grown to have global effects, we then zero in on two contemporary issues: atmospheric ozone and global warming.
语种	英语
来源期刊	Science
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/243437
作者单位	Atmospheric Chemistry, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany; Atmospheric Sciences, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, CA, United States
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Crutzen P.J.,Ramanathan V.. The ascent of atmospheric sciences[J],2000,290(5490).
APA	Crutzen P.J.,&Ramanathan V..(2000).The ascent of atmospheric sciences.Science,290(5490).
MLA	Crutzen P.J.,et al."The ascent of atmospheric sciences".Science 290.5490(2000).