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Guido Visconti

Guido Visconti is Professor Emeritus at Università dell'Aquila, Italy and a member of the National Academy of Lincei. He has held a Fulbright Fellowship (1968-69), University of Maryland (USA). NATO Fellowship, Dept of Meteorology, MIT, USA, (1976, 1977). NATO Senior Fellowship, NCAR, USA (1986 -1987). He has served as committee member of the Intergovernmental Panel for Climatic Change (IPCC) and Member of the International Ozone Commission (WMO). In his long career he was the Principal Investigator UARS Correlative Measurements Program (NASA) and Atmospheric Effects of Supersonic Airplane (AESA, NASA). He was the author of the books, Fundamentals of Physics and Chemistry of the Atmosphere, Second Edition, (2016), Problems, Philosophy and Politics of Climate Science, (2018) , Fluid Dynamics (2020) and Fluid Environment of the Earth (2023).

Origin and Evolution of the Atmosphere and Ocean Erschienen am 15.11.2025

Origin and Evolution of the Atmosphere and Ocean

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Chapter1: The physics we need. Origin of the solar system. The age of the solar system. Meteorite composition as guide to the history of the solar system. The primitive nebula. The formation of planets: terrestrial planets and jovian planets. The D/H ratio as a guide to the water source. The formation of the oceans.- Chapter 2: The physics and chemistry we need. The role of noble gas inventory. The delivery of volatiles. Degassing and Ingassing. Formation of steam atmosphere. Late bombardment. Volcanic outgassing. Methane. The prebiotic atmosphere. The redox balance of early Earth. The early postbiotic atmosphere.- Chapter 3: Some biology and physics. The appearance of life. Anaerobic metabolism and the anoxygenic photosynthesis. Hydrogen and escape mechanisms. The habitable zone in the Solar System.- Chapter 4: Atmospheric chemistry. The rise of oxygen and ozone. The biogeochemical cycles in the early atmosphere and ocean. The carbon budget. The chemical evolution.- Chapter 5: Radiative notions. The climate evolution from the faint Sun...

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