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Variations of the amount of carbon dioxide in different air currents
Author(s) -
Callendar G. S.
Publication year - 1940
Publication title -
quarterly journal of the royal meteorological society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.744
H-Index - 143
eISSN - 1477-870X
pISSN - 0035-9009
DOI - 10.1002/qj.49706628705
Subject(s) - carbon dioxide , atmosphere (unit) , carbon dioxide in earth's atmosphere , environmental science , atmospheric sciences , atmospheric air , meteorology , chemistry , geology , geography , organic chemistry
The first measurements to determine the composition of the atmosphere were made at least 180 years ago, but chemists worked more than a century before they obtained really accurate values for the amount of carbon dioxide in the air. In the following: a brief review is given of the present state of knowledge concerning the variations of atmospheric carbon dioxide, together with some observations which appear to show that the amount of this gas in the air has increased of late years.