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Major aspects of the circulation through the atmospheric environment of a number of gaseous pollutants have been estimated, including source magnitudes, residual atmospheric concentrations, and scavenging processes. The compounds considered include the major sulfur and nitrogen pollutants as well as CO. One-third of the sulfur reaching the atmosphere comes from pollutant sources, mainly as SO2. Within the atmosphere there is a net transfer of sulfur from land to ocean areas. In the global atmospheric nitrogen cycle, pollutant emissions of NO2 play only a minor role, and the atmospheric nitrogen cycle is apparently dominated by natural emissions of ammonia. Scavenging mechanisms for removing CO from the atmosphere are very speculative, but there is now considerable evidence of an oceanic source of natural CO to add to the very large pollutant source.
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Robinson, E., Robbins, R.C. (1970). Gaseous Atmospheric Pollutants from Urban and Natural Sources. In: Singer, S.F. (eds) Global Effects of Environmental Pollution. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-3290-2_7
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