This paper analyses the relation between air quality and subjective well-being in Germany. Life Satisfaction (LS) data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) is connected with daily county pollution in terms of carbon monoxide (CO), nitrogen dioxide (NO2) and ozone (O3) from 1998 to 2008. The assumed microeconometric happiness function is estimated considering individual time invaria...

Oceanic iron (Fe) fertilization experiments have advanced the understanding of how Fe regulates biological productivity and air-sea carbon dioxide (CO(2)) exchange. However, little is known about the production and consumption of halocarbons and other gases as a result of Fe addition. Besides metabolizing inorganic carbon, marine microorganisms produce and consume many other trace gases. Severa...

Prediction of ground-level ozone concentrations is very important due to the negative impacts of this pollutant on human health and environment. Multiple linear regression (MLR) and principal component (PCR) regression were used as statistical models for the forecasting of ozone concentrations. The aim of this study was to predict the next day maximum ozone concentration. The studies were perfo...

Abstract Arctic amplification (AA)—the greater warming of the near-surface temperature relative to its global mean value—is a prominent feature climate response increasing greenhouse gases. Recent work has revealed importance ozone-depleting substances (ODS) in contributing and sea-ice loss. Here, using ensembles model integrations, we expand on that directly contrast from ODS carbon dioxide (C...

to 100 DU or even less. Such severe depletion was not observed in the Arctic. Judged by these criteria, there was no Arctic ozone hole in 2011 — only the most extreme episode of ozone loss seen in the Arctic so far. However, the evolution of HNO3, HCl and ClO species was strikingly Antarctic-like and different from what has been observed in other Arctic winters. On the basis of these considerat...

The effective parameters of (5, 0) and (5, 5) single-wall carbon nanotubes during the interaction with carbon dioxide as sensors are determined. The interaction of carbon dioxide  molecules with internal and external walls of the nanotubes is studied using Gaussian 03 coding by density functional theory (DFT) at the B3LYP/6-311G level of theory. CO2 rotation around tube axles vertically and par...

background: the widespread use of toluene and its consequent adverse effects on health and specially its chronic effects on the central nervous system has resulted in many studies being carried out on the methods that can control and reduce toluene vapors in the airflow. the objective of this study is to assess the effectiveness of the catalytic ozonation process in the removal of toluene from ...

PURPOSE To assess the bactericidal action of ozone pneumoperitonium, and to compare the results with CO2. METHODS It was used 36 Wistar rats. The animals, under anesthesia, were inoculated with 2ml of E. coli ATCC at a concentration of 10(10)UFC, and 1ml of BaSO4, into the peritoneal cavity. They were divided into three groups: Group 1, CO2 pneumoperitoneum was performed for 15 minutes; Group...

Multispectral, hyperspectral and ultraspectral imagers and sounders are increasingly important for atmospheric science and weather forecasting. The recent advent of multipsectral and hyperspectral sensors measuring radiances in the emissive IR are providing valuable new information. This is due to the presence of spectral channels (in some cases micro-channels) which are carefully positioned in...

Only recently, within a few decades, have we realized that humanity significantly influences the global environment. In the early 1980s, atmospheric measurements confirmed basic concepts developed a decade earlier. These basic concepts showed that human activities were affecting the ozone layer. Later measurements and theoretical analyses have clearly connected observed changes in ozone to huma...