The Hard 1990s—the Time of Major Projects to Study the Composition of the Atmosphere
摘要
The aggravation of problems of changing the state of the ozone layer and the Earth’s climate in the 1990s caused the rapid development of atmospheric composition studies. The creation of more advanced numerical models in order to predict possible consequences required an expansion of the number of measured admixtures and more detailed information about their chemical interactions in the atmosphere. The Institute of Atmospheric Physics (IAP), Russian Academy of Sciences, is one of the few scientific centers in the countries of the former USSR, which followed the global trend under conditions of the economic and political crisis. This paper briefly summarizes the main achievements of the Institute in the field of improving the atmospheric composition observation system and studying the processes of transport and chemical transformation of admixtures in the period from 1990 to 2008, when G.S. Golitsyn headed the IAP.