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Earth's Atmosphere

NOAA

Goddard Inst.

ESA

Sidney Chapman's 1930 paper was the first to describe the ozone layer.

Google - Research database allows searching of the scholarly literature.

Sydney Chapman
Sydney Chapman

NASA - A concise description of the layers of the earth's atmosphere.

National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration - Links to research and data about atmospheric components.

NASA - Near real-time satellite imagery of atmospheric clouds, temperature and climate updated every 30 minutes.

EO Library - Information on tropospheric ozone, including pollution control mechanisms.

National Academy of Sciences - Traces the history of the discovery of ozone, the ozone layer, and the ongoing studies of the ozone hole over Antartica.

An alphabetical glossary of relevant scientific terms.

John Dalton's 1802 paper.

Mus. Sci. History, Florence - A description and illustration of the invention of the barometer.

NASA - See how temperature and pressure vary with altitude.

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-Empedocles,
circa 490 b.c. –
c. 430 b.c.



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