Chapter 9
Earth's atmosphere and environment
Links to WWW resourcesRadiation environment......................................232 Galactic cosmic radiation.................................232 Solar high energy particle radiation......................232 Trapped radiation..........................................233 Solar irradiance...........................................236 Visible and infrared radiation............................236 Ultraviolet and X-ray radiation...........................236 The solar spectrum.........................................237 The international reference atmosphere.....................238 Altitude variation of atmospheric constituents.............239 Opacity of the atmosphere..................................240 US standard atmosphere.....................................241 Structure of the upper atmosphere..........................243 Earth's magnetosphere......................................244 Bibliography...............................................244