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Chapman's model for ozone concentration: earth`s slowing rotation effect in the atmospheric past

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics 2007-05-23 v1 Chemical Physics Geophysics

Abstract

Chapman's model for ozone concentration is studied. In this nonlinear model, the photodissociation coefficients for O2O_{2} and O3O_{3} are time-depending due to earth-rotation. From the Kapitsa's method, valid in the high frequency limit, we find the criterion for the existence of equilibrium solutions. These solutions are depending on the frequency, and require a rotation period TT which satisfies T<T1T<T_{1} or T>T2T>T_{2}. Where the critical periods T1T_{1} and T2T_{2}, with T2>T1T_{2}>T_{1}, are a function of the parameters of the system (reaction rates and photodissociation coefficients). Conjectures respect to the retardation of the earth's rotation, due to friction, suggest that the criterion was not even verified in the atmospheric past.

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@article{arxiv.physics/0007032,
  title  = {Chapman's model for ozone concentration: earth`s slowing rotation effect in the atmospheric past},
  author = {J. C. Flores and S. Montecinos},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0007032},
  year   = {2007}
}

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