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Transcendental Thermodynamics, Richard E. Morel, George Fleck

Kahn Institute Projects

Thermodynamics is often viewed as a narrow, introspective discipline, trapped by its origins in the 18th and 19th centuries. By dramatic contrast, we show that the Fourth Law of Thermodynamics provides explanations and interpretations of all natural events, extending across artificial boundaries of tradition- al academic disciplines. The Fourth Law of Thermodynamics states that far-from-equilibrium systems increase entropy at the maximum rate available to them. This broadly inclusive paradigm applies to systems from molecules, to organisms, to the biosphere. The Fourth Law is the Law of Evolution. All systems that communicate with their environment exhibit self-organization and self-optimization, enabling the …

Some Biogeographers, Evolutionists And Ecologists: Chrono-Biographical Sketches, Charles H. Smith, Joshua Woleben, Carubie Rodgers

DLPS Faculty Publications

Each name in the following list of naturalists is linked to a corresponding capsule "chrono-biographical" sketch of that individual prepared by the authors. Coverage extends from approximately 1950 backward in time as far as the eighteenth century; figures from all over the world are included (though there is admittedly a decided Anglo-American bias). The target subject here is biogeography, but this being a broad field there are many persons on the list who are better known as climatologists, zoologists, botanists, ecologists, oceanographers, paleontologists, etc.--in other words, who made their main reputations in cognate disciplines.

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Observed And Simulated Time Evolution Of Hcl, Clono2, And Hf Total Column Abundances, R Kohlhepp, R Ruhnke, M P Chipperfield, M De Maziere, J Notholt, S Barthlott, R L. Batchelor, R D. Blatherwick, Th Blumenstock, M T. Coffey, P Demoulin, H Fast, W Feng, A Goldman, D W. T Griffith, K Hamann, J W. Hannigan, F Hase, N B. Jones, A Kagawa, I Kaiser, Y Kasai, O Kirner, W Kouker, R Lindenmaier, E Mahieu, R L. Mittermeier, B Monge-Sanz, I Morino, I Murata, H Nakajima, M Palm, Clare Paton-Walsh, U Raffalski, Th Reddmann, M Rettinger, C P. Rinsland, E Rozanov, M Schneider, C Senten, C Servais, B M. Sinnhuber, D Smale, K Strong, R Sussmann, J R. Taylor, G Vanhaelewyn, T Warneke, C Whaley, M Wiehle, S W. Wood

Faculty of Science - Papers (Archive)

Time series of total column abundances of hydrogen chloride (HCl), chlorine nitrate (ClONO2), and hydrogen fluoride (HF) were determined from ground-based Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectra recorded at 17 sites belonging to the Network for the Detection of Atmospheric Composition Change (NDACC) and located between 80.05° N and 77.82° S. By providing such a near-global overview on ground-based measurements of the two major stratospheric chlorine reservoir species, HCl and ClONO2, the present study is able to confirm the decrease of the atmospheric inorganic chlorine abundance during the last few years. This decrease is expected following the 1987 Montreal Protocol and …