Optoelectronics for Environmental Science

26x16cm, ix, 293 pp, Series: Ettore Majorana International Science Series, Volume 54. Contains 23 papers: Includes: Atmospheric pollution monitoring using laser lidars; Laser fluorescence spectroscopy in environmental monitoring; Optical fiber sensors for the environment; The Italian program in Antarctica, related to the ozone hole problem & the experimental cloud lidar pilot study; Differential absorption lidar detection of ozone in the troposphere & lower stratosphere; Determination of atmospheric ozone properties at 68N and 79N with a daylight lidar instrument; Laser atmospheric wind velocity measurements; Differential optical absorption spectroscopy (DOAS) for the continuous monitoring of atmospheric trace constitutents at a high alpine station; Photoacoustic NH3 monitoring with waveguide CO2 lasers; Fluorescence lidars in environmental remote sensing; Hydrographic applications of airborne laser spectroscopy; Quantitative detection of strontium-90 and strontium-89 in environmental samples by laser mass spectroscopy; Laser ultrasensitive photoionization detection of rare elements in geochemistry, oceanology & study of geological catastrophes; Determination of toxic metals in environmental objects by laser excited atomic fluorescence spectrometry; Trace analysis of plutonium & technetium by resonance ionization mass spectrometry using an atomic beam & a laser ion source; Tunable diode laser spectroscopy for the reconstruction of atmospheric CO2-concentrations of the past 50,000 years; Resonance ionization spectroscopy for dating very old groundwater; Laser ablation for microanalysis; etc. Minor rubbing. Small mark to flyleaf. Light page-edge soil. VG.…