Week 2

Core Material

Stratospheric ozone chemistry PPTX

  • Brief history

  • Chapman chemistry scheme for stratospheric ozone

  • Catalytic cycles

  • Antarctic ozone hole

  • Montreal Protocol

  • Polar stratospheric clouds

Supporting material

Space tourism: rockets emit 100 times more CO₂ per passenger than flights – imagine a whole industry (opinion piece)

Class 3

PPTX

Lifetimes, mass and steady state in atmospheric chemistry

Class 4

PPTX

Stratospheric ozone

Interpretation of Chapman scheme using steady state and atmospheric lifetime concepts