• Introduction to Atmospheric Chemistry (Second Edition)
1 1

Introduction to Atmospheric Chemistry (Second Edition)

$75.00
$75.00 $75.00
Sale Sold out
An expanded and fully revised edition of the leading introductory textbook on atmospheric chemistry, designed for a one-semester courseAtmospheric chemistry studies the factors controlling the comp...
Read More
Request Exam Copy Request Desk Copy
  • Format:
  • Publication Date: 09 March 2027
  • ISBN: 9780691275512
  • Pages: 336
  • Imprint: Princeton University Press
View Product Details

An expanded and fully revised edition of the leading introductory textbook on atmospheric chemistry, designed for a one-semester course

Atmospheric chemistry studies the factors controlling the composition of the atmosphere and their implications for life on Earth. This book is structured as a one-semester course, progressively introducing the concepts and methods of atmospheric chemistry at a level easily accessible to students in the sciences and engineering. Exercises with answers allow students to apply what they’ve learned along the way, and there are questions and problems at the end of each chapter that draw on the latest findings while telling insightful stories. Completely updated with extensive new material, Introduction to Atmospheric Chemistry grounds students in the fundamentals of a fast-growing discipline of real-world importance and enables them to launch research projects of their own.

  • Now features an entirely new chapter on environmental mercury, primers on core concepts, and scores of new exercises
  • Discusses all areas of atmospheric chemistry, including connections to related disciplines
  • Topics include measures of atmospheric composition, atmospheric pressure, simple models, atmospheric transport, global biogeochemical cycles, chemical kinetics, stratospheric chemistry, tropospheric oxidant chemistry, aerosol chemistry, and atmospheric mercury
  • Covers issues of major importance to society, such as climate change, air pollution, and stratospheric ozone
  • Written by a leading researcher and educator in the field
  • An ideal textbook for undergraduate students, graduate students, and professionals
  • Lecture slides and solutions available to instructors
files/i.png Icon
Price: $75.00
Pages: 336
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Imprint: Princeton University Press
Publication Date: 09 March 2027
ISBN: 9780691275512
Format: Hardcover
Daniel J. Jacob is the Vasco McCoy Family Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry and Environmental Engineering at Harvard University. He is the author (with Guy P. Brasseur) of Modeling of Atmospheric Chemistry.
  • Preface
  • Chapter 1: Measures of Atmospheric Composition
    • 1.1 Relative concentration
    • 1.2 Absolute concentration
    • 1.3 Column concentration and optical depth
      • Box 1.1: Radiation intensity, radiation flux, and actinic flux
    • 1.4 Aerosol size distribution
    • 1.5 Partial pressure
    • 1.6 Phase diagram of water and cloud formation
      • Box 1.2: Derivation of the phase rule
    • 1.7 Aerosol water and visibility
      • Questions and Problems, Chapter 1
        • 1.1 Questions
        • 1.2 The ozone layer
        • 1.3 Gravitational settling of particles
        • 1.4 Phase partitioning of water in a cloud
        • 1.5 Seeing your breath
        • 1.6 Dew point during heat waves
  • Chapter 2: Atmospheric Pressure
    • 2.1 Measuring atmospheric pressure
    • 2.2 Mass of the atmosphere
    • 2.3 Variation of pressure and temperature with altitude
    • 2.4 Pressure-gradient force
    • 2.5 The barometric law
      • Box 2.1: Gravitational separation of air by molecular diffusion
    • 2.6 The sea-breeze circulation
      • Questions and Problems, Chapter 2
        • 2.1 Questions
        • 2.2 Comparing the atmospheres of Earth, Venus, and Mars
        • 2.3 Measuring aerosol concentrations from aircraft
        • 2.4 Estimating global atmospheric masses
        • 2.5 Oxygen in the Archean atmosphere
  • Chapter 3: Simple Models
    • 3.1 Model processes
      • Box 3.1: The continuity equation
    • 3.2 One-box model
      • 3.2.1 Mass balance equation
      • 3.2.2 Atmospheric lifetime
      • 3.2.3 Solution for first-order loss
    • 3.3 Two-box model
    • 3.4 Chemical transport models
      • Questions and Problems, Chapter 3
        • 3.1 Questions
        • 3.2 Atmospheric helium
        • 3.3 Atmospheric titration
        • 3.4 Aerosol scavenging by precipitation
        • 3.5 The Montreal Protocol
        • 3.6 Growth of atmospheric methane
        • 3.7 Interhemispheric exchange
        • 3.8 Exchange between the troposphere and the mesosphere
  • Chapter 4: Atmospheric Transport
    • 4.1 Forces in the atmosphere
      • Box 4.1: The Coriolis force
    • 4.2 General circulation of the atmosphere
    • 4.3 Vertical transport
      • 4.3.1 Buoyancy and atmospheric stability
      • Box 4.2: Buoyancy
      • Box 4.3: Derivation of the adiabatic lapse rate
      • 4.3.2 Factors determining atmospheric stability
      • 4.3.3 Diurnal cycle of planetary boundary layer mixing
      • 4.3.4 Timescales for vertical transport
      • Questions and Problems, Chapter 4
        • 4.1 Questions
        • 4.2 Cloud base altitude
        • 4.3 An atmosphere with fixed relative humidity?
        • 4.4 Fumigation
        • 4.5 International transport of pollution
        • 4.6 Effect of climate change on air quality
  • Chapter 5: Global Biogeochemical Cycles
    • 5.1 A brief history of the atmosphere
    • 5.2 Biogeochemical cycling of elements
      • 5.2.1 General principles
      • Box 5.1: Redox reactions, oxidation states, stoichiometry
      • 5.2.2 Working with biogeochemical box models
      • Box 5.2: Characteristic timescales in linear models
    • 5.3 The nitrogen cycle
      • Box 5.3: Zel’dovich mechanism for high-temperature oxidation of N2 to NO
      • Box 5.4: Global budget of atmospheric N2O
    • 5.4 The oxygen cycle
    • 5.5 The carbon cycle
      • Box 5.5: Water chemistry: Chemical equlibrium, Henry’s law, acid dissociation, electroneutrality
      • 5.5.1 CO2 equilibrium with the ocean
      • 5.5.2 The natural carbon cycle
      • 5.5.3 The perturbed carbon cycle
      • Box 5.6: Derivation of equation (5.30)
      • Questions and Problems, Chapter 5
        • 5.1 Questions
        • 5.2 Interpreting the airborne fraction of CO2
        • 5.3 Atmospheric lifetime of helium
        • 5.4 Ocean uptake of CO2 by dissolution of sediments
        • 5.5 Fossil fuel combustion as a source of water vapor
        • 5.6 Ocean alkalinity and ammonia
        • 5.7 Attributing the land sink of CO2
  • Chapter 6: Chemical Forcing of Climate Change
    • 6.1 Radiation
      • 6.1.1 Emission of radiation
      • 6.1.2 Blackbody radiation and Kirchhoff’s law
    • 6.2 Effective temperature of the Earth
      • 6.2.1 Solar and terrestrial emission spectra
      • 6.2.2 Radiative balance of the Earth
    • 6.3 The greenhouse effect
      • 6.3.1 Absorption of radiation by gas molecules
      • 6.3.2 Simple greenhouse model
      • 6.3.3 Improving on the simple greenhouse model
      • 6.3.4 Interpretation of the terrestrial radiation spectrum
    • 6.4 Aerosol effects
    • 6.5 Radiative forcing
      • 6.5.1 Climate response to radiative forcing
      • Box 6.1: Diagnosing climate sensitivity in Earth system models
      • 6.5.2 Radiative forcing since preindustrial time
    • 6.6 Climate policy metrics
      • Questions and Problems, Chapter 6
        • 6.1 Questions
        • 6.2 Jupiter and Mars
        • 6.3 The faint Sun problem
        • 6.4 Cooling of the stratosphere by greenhouse gases
        • 6.5 Remote sensing in the thermal infrared
        • 6.6 Albedo increase from aerosols
        • 6.7 Black carbon and clouds
        • 6.8 Solar geoengineering
  • Chapter 7: Review of Chemical Kinetics
    • 7.1 Bimolecular reactions
    • 7.2 Three-body reactions and thermolysis
    • 7.3 Photolysis
    • 7.4 Radical reaction chains
    • 7.5 Working with chemical mechanisms
    • 7.6 Chemical families
  • Chapter 8: Stratospheric Chemistry
    • 8.1 Early measurements
    • 8.2 Chapman mechanism
      • 8.2.1 Mechanism description
      • Box 8.1: Energy states of the oxygen atom
      • 8.2.2 Steady-state analysis
    • 8.3 Catalytic cycles for ozone loss
      • 8.3.1 Hydrogen oxide radicals
      • 8.3.2 Nitrogen oxide radicals
      • Box 8.2: Determining the rate-limiting step in a reaction mechanism
      • 8.3.3 Chlorine radicals
    • 8.4 Polar ozone depletion: The Antarctic ozone hole
    • 8.5 Chemistry of the lower stratosphere
      • Questions and Problems, Chapter 8
        • 8.1 Questions
        • 8.2 Fabry’s discovery of the ozone layer
        • 8.3 The shape of the ozone layer
        • 8.4 The Chapman mechanism and steady state
        • 8.5 HOx-catalyzed cycles for ozone loss
        • 8.6 HOx-catalyzed ozone loss
        • 8.7 NOx-catalyzed ozone loss
        • 8.8 Expanding the definition of the odd oxygen family
        • 8.9 Chemical loss of NOy in the upper stratosphere
        • 8.10 Chlorine-catalyzed ozone loss
        • 8.11 Ozone depletion potential of halocarbons
        • 8.12 A proposal to fix the ozone hole
        • 8.13 Iodine-catalyzed ozone loss
  • Chapter 9: Tropospheric Oxidant Chemistry
    • 9.1 A brief history
    • 9.2 Tropospheric OH
      • 9.2.1 Methyl chloroform proxy
      • 9.2.2 Budgets of OH-reacting gases: CO, methane, NMVOCs
      • Box 9.1: Global budget of CO
      • Box 9.2: Global budget of methane
      • Box 9.3: Global budget of NMVOCs
    • 9.3 Chemical mechanism for tropospheric ozone
      • 9.3.1 Tropospheric NOx
      • Box 9.4: Global sources of tropospheric NOx
      • 9.3.2 Oxidation of CO
      • 9.3.3 Oxidation of methane
      • Box 9.5: Global budget of H2
      • 9.3.4 Oxidation of NMVOCs
      • 9.3.5 Peroxyacetyl nitrate and other organic nitrates
    • 9.4 Dependence of ozone production on NOx and VOCs
      • 9.4.1 NOx- and VOC-limited regimes
      • 9.4.2 Ozone isopleth diagram
      • 9.4.3 Ozone production efficiency
    • 9.5 Global budget of tropospheric ozone
    • 9.6 Global distribution and trend of tropospheric ozone
    • 9.7 Global distribution and trend of tropospheric OH
    • 9.8 Diurnal cycle of surface ozone
      • Questions and Problems, Chapter 9
        • 9.1 Questions
        • 9.2 Branching reactions
        • 9.3 Using hydrocarbon pairs to infer OH concentrations
        • 9.4 Global sources of tropospheric ozone
        • 9.5 Local budget of tropospheric ozone
        • 9.6 Acetone as a source of OH and ozone
        • 9.7 Seasonal switch in ozone production regime
        • 9.8 Peroxynitric acid
        • 9.9 Chemical regimes in the upper troposphere
        • 9.10 Deep convection as an OH source
        • 9.11 Ozone production efficiency from diesel cars
        • 9.12 Tropospheric bromine explosion
  • Chapter 10: Aerosol Chemistry
    • 10.1 Historical perspective
    • 10.2 Aerosol life cycle and size distribution
    • 10.3 Aerosol composition
    • 10.4 Sulfate formation
      • Box 10.1: Global emission of sulfur gases
    • 10.5 Sulfate-nitrate-ammonium aerosol
      • Box 10.2: Global emission of ammonia
    • 10.6 Acid rain
    • 10.7 Organic aerosol
      • 10.7.1 Organic-phase model for SOA formation
      • 10.7.2 Aqueous-phase model for SOA formation
      • 10.7.3 Van Krevelen diagram for SOA formation and aging
      • Questions and Problems, Chapter 10
        • 10.1 Questions
        • 10.2 Oxidation of SO2 to sulfate
        • 10.3 Increasing nitrate aerosol as NOx emissions decrease
        • 10.4 Chloride displacement by nitric acid
        • 10.5 Sulfuric versus sulfurous acid
        • 10.6 The true acidity of rain
        • 10.7 Acidity of rain in the preindustrial atmosphere
        • 10.8 Simple organic-phase model for SOA formation
        • 10.9 VBS model applied to dilution of fresh exhaust
        • 10.10 Glyoxal as a source of organic aerosol
        • 10.11 Aerosol lifetimes against deposition
  • Chapter 11: Atmospheric Mercury
    • 11.1 Mercury as an atmospheric gas
    • 11.2 Hg(0)/Hg(II) redox chemistry
    • 11.3 Global biogeochemical cycling of mercury
      • Questions and Problems, Chapter 11
        • 11.1 Questions
        • 11.2 Atmospheric chemistry of mercury
        • 11.3 Mercury deposition to the ocean
        • 11.4 Mercury from the Gold Rush
  • Index