Introduction to Atmospheric Chemistry

ISBN-13: 9780521778008 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 276 str.

Peter V. Hobbs

Opis

Introduction to Atmospheric Chemistry reviews in ten concise chapters the chemistry of the Earth's atmosphere and some outstanding environmental issues, including air pollution, acid rain, the ozone hole, and global change. Peter Hobbs is an eminent atmospheric science teacher, researcher, and author of several well-known textbooks. This text and his other book Basic Physical Chemistry for the Atmospheric Sciences (Second Edition, Cambridge University Press 2000) form companion volumes. The book, designed to be a primary textbook for a first university course--undergraduate or graduate--in atmospheric chemistry, will find a place in atmospheric science, meteorology, environmental science, geophysics and chemistry curricula. Special features include worked exercises and end-of-chapter student exercises with model solutions in an appendix.

Recenzje

'… this book can be highly recommended to students as well as other people interested in air chemistry.' Peter Winkler, Meteoroligische Zeistschrift

Spis treści

Preface; 1. Evolution of the Earth's atmosphere; 2. Half-life, residence time and renewal time of chemicals in the atmosphere; 3. Present chemical composition of the atmosphere; 4. Interactions of solar and terrestrial radiation with atmospheric trace gases and aerosols; 5. Sources, transformations, transport, and sinks of chemicals in the troposphere; 6. Atmospheric aerosols; 7. Cloud and precipitation chemistry; 8. Tropospheric chemical cycles; 9. Air pollution; 10. Stratospheric chemistry; Appendices; Index.