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Rutherford identifies N2 in air. Scheele and Priestley independently discover O2
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H.Cavendish measures the composition of air to be 79.16% nitrogen and 20.84% oxygen.
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Coriolis effect described by the 19th-century French engineer-mathematician G. Coriolis
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Schonbein discovers ozone in the laboratory
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A. Cornu measures the spectrum of solar radiation
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W. Hartley concludes that Cornus’s absorber is ozone in the upper atmosphere.
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S. Chapman proposes the first photochemical theory for upper atmospheric ozone production
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N.Phillips completes the first successful numerical simulation of atmospheric circulation
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The Explorer VI provides TV imagery of cloud cover.
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Manabe and Wetherald develop the one dimensional radiative convective model including clouds,water vapor,CO2, and ozone and show that a doubling of CO2 can warm the planet by about 3 degrees.
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H. Levy proposes that reactions with OH radicals make up the main tropospheric sink for almost all gases emitted into the atmosphere
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Many countries signed the Montreal Protocol on substances that deplete the Ozone layer in which signatories agree to control on the production and use of ozone destroying materials.
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The Earth Radiation Budget Experiment demonstrates that clouds reflect significantly more solar energy than the long wave radiant heat energy they retain thus exerting a large cooling effect on the planet
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Halley shows that low latitudes receive more solar radiation than higher ones and proposes that this gradient provides forcing for the atmosphere’s general circulation.
