Open AccessUltra-violet transparency of the lower atmosphere, and relative poverty in Ozone
Author(s) -
Robert John Strutt
Publication year - 1918
Publication title -
proceedings of the royal society of london. series a, containing papers of a mathematical and physical character
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2053-9150
pISSN - 0950-1207
DOI - 10.1098/rspa.1918.0012
Subject(s) - ozone , atmosphere (unit) , limiting , absorption (acoustics) , absorption spectroscopy , extinction (optical mineralogy) , solar atmosphere , atmospheric sciences , photochemistry , astrophysics , physics , meteorology , chemistry , optics , mechanical engineering , quantum mechanics , magnetic field , engineering
Many years ago it was suggested by Hartley* that the limit of the solar spectrum towards the ultra-violet was attributable to absorption by atmospheric ozone, which, as he showed, would give rise to a general absorption beginning at about the place where the solar spectrum ends. In a recent paper by Prof. A. Fowler and myself,† the evidence for this view was very much strengthened. For it was shown that just on the limits of extinction the solar spectrum shows a series of narrow absorption bands which are eventually merged in the general absorption, and these narrow bands are precisely reproduced in the absorption spectrum of ozone. For my own part, I do not feel any doubt that ozone in the atmosphere is the effective cause limiting the solar spectrum.