The exposure of a high gloss polyurethane aircraft topcoat system with polyurethane intermediate coating and epoxy primer to strong ultraviolet radiation in Lhasa,Tibet was studied by using scanning electron microscopy(SEM) ,atomic force microscopy(AFM) ,attenuated total reflectance Fourier-transform infrared(ATR-FTIR) ,and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy(XPS) .Micro-flakes were found to form on the topcoat surface after exposure and the size and quantity of the flakes increased with the increase of the ex...