Estimates of stratospheric pollution by an analytic model.

1 December 1975

journal article
Published by Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Vol. 72 (12) , 4711-4715
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.72.12.4711

Abstract

With suitable choices of the height profile of eddy diffusion coefficient, the vertical flow of an inert tracer is given by an analytic solution. Odd nitrogen, or NOX, from aircraft exhausts can be regarded as such a tracer, and the amount in the stratosphere resulting from a source of a given strength can be immediately calculated. The resulting destruction of ozone is then estimated with the help of a formula obtained from earlier work.

Keywords

ODD NITROGEN
FORMULA OBTAINED
ANALYTIC SOLUTION
STRATOSPHERE RESULTING
ANALYTIC MODEL
SUITABLE CHOICES
STRATOSPHERIC POLLUTION

This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:

Reduction of Stratospheric Ozone by Nitrogen Oxide Catalysts from Supersonic Transport Exhaust
Science, 1971