Useful introductory material for "atmospheric chemistry" and "air
pollution"
Wikipedia "Atmospheric
Chemistry"
Review Questions
1. Express the percentage of nitrogen in the atmosphere (78.084%) as a
mixing ratio in parts per million?
2. Is the percentage of nitrogen in the atmosphere, when expressed as
78.084%, a true mixing ratio that one would observe, or the 'dry mixing
ratio'?
3. Why is the CO2 mixing ratio expressed both as 400 ppm and
370 ppm in the Wikipedia page?
4. What is the most recent year in history when the CO2
mixing ratio was last equal to 370 ppm (as measured at Mauna Loa,
Hawaii)?
5. Before 1900, when was the CO2 mixing ratio last above 350
ppm?
6. What is the typical mixing ratio of water vapor?
7. If you were to take a real air parcel and measure water vapor, how
likely is it that you would measure this "typical" mixing ratio?
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