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After World War II, Professor S.K. Mitra wrote a comprehensive book entitled "The Upper Atmosphere", which dealt with information available from ground-based and balloon-borne experiments. As a result, other topics such as day airglow were investigated. Since then, ground-based experiments using incoherent backscattering have been carried out, and new information on the ozonosphere has been obtained. The dramatic discovery of ozone holes forms a new chapter. While dealing with the limits of the atmosphere, reference is made to interstellar molecules whose discovery has raised considerable scientific curiosity. Knowledge of the solar-terrestrial relationship has advanced a great deal as information relating to solar radiation is now available from higher energy photons in the UV, EUV, and even X-ray regimes. All this information is incorporated in the present volume and presented under the title of "The Neutral Upper Atmosphere".

Preface. 1. Atmospheric Regions, their Constituents and Chemistry. 2. Pressure and Density Distributions In Terrestrial Atmosphere. 3. Atmospheric Ozone, Its Depletion and Antarctic Ozone Hole. 4. Effects of Solar UV, EUV and X-ray Radiations on Upper Atmosphere. 5. Airglow I Four Main Airglow Emissions. 6. Other Airglow Emissions and Metastable Atoms and Molecules. 7. The Limit of Atmosphere and the Space Beyond. 8. Life Related Molecules and Masers in Space.