Diagnostic Tools in Atmospheric Physics, (Proceedings of the International School of Physics)

This volume contains the lectures presented at the summer school, "Diagnostic Tools for the Atmosphere". The intention this time was to address a number of both experimental techniques and methods for the data treatment introduced in the last ten years or so in different fields of the atmospheric sciences. Considerable emphasis has been given, since their introduction, to the use of satellites or spaceborne measurements, with a recent example being the important results obtained with UARS. Of particular interest are the airborne instruments developed for the stratospheric measurement campaign organized by NASA since 1976 in order to study the ozone hole. This was followed later by similar experiments to study the high-latitude ozone depletion in the northern hemisphere. The results of these experiments have helped clarify the role of chlorine-bearing compounds in the ozone depletion and the effect of the heterogeneous processes. The book is organised into four chapters: the first three divide the different techniques according to the location of the measuring instrumentation (ground, air and space), with the fourth chapter dealing with theory and analysis.