Beer-Lambert's Law and Earth’s Atmosphere
- Use a reading that uses the Beer-Lambert Law to explain the increasing global warming potential of Earth’s atmosphere due to the higher concentrations of greenhouse gases, in recent times.
- Use the reading, "Chemical Connections to Climate Change" to learn how the Beer-Lambert Law can be used to study the transmittance of sunlight through the atmosphere.
- Discuss the composition of the atmosphere and list out the gases that make up the atmosphere.
- Extend the understanding of the Beer-Lambert Law to evaluate the absorbance values of individual gases in the atmosphere.
- Use the text to understand the absorption potential of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane.
- Discuss how this results in warming on Earth due to the greenhouse effect. Finally, use the reading to explore how this greenhouse gas effect is exacerbated by increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
Composition of Earth' Atmosphere Gases