Atmospheric Chemistry
Will be published approx. on 31. August 2026
Book
Hardback
300 pages
978-1-009-25849-4 (ISBN)
Description
Understanding the environmental impacts of atmospheric chemistry is essential when making observations and decisions. This comprehensive textbook adopts a holistic Earth systems perspective, explaining the interconnection between the chemistry and physics of the Earth's atmosphere with the complex changes that occur due to natural and anthropogenic activities. Providing a systematic foundation in theory, measurement, and modelling, along with recent data and numerical examples, it equips students with the essential background needed to understand and analyze atmospheric systems. Designed for advanced undergraduate and early graduate students, the textbook utilizes a step-by-step approach to equations and theoretical assumptions, allowing readers to better understand field research, laboratory measurements, and atmospheric modelling, and apply those lessons to real world problems. With interconnected concepts forming a comprehensive framework, end-of-chapter questions that encourage critical thinking, and an online solutions manual, this textbook is an invaluable resource for students of atmospheric chemistry.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
Worked examples or Exercises
ISBN-13
978-1-009-25849-4 (9781009258494)
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Joseph S. Francisco
Atmospheric Chemistry
Book
approx. 08/2026
Cambridge University Press
€57.50
Not yet published
Person
Joseph S. Francisco is the President's Distinguished Professor of Earth and Environmental Science and Professor of Chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania. Joseph trained as a Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge and then returned to Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a Provost Postdoctoral Fellow. He was also a Visiting Associate in Planetary Science at the California Institute of Technology. He is a co-author (with Jeffrey I. Steinfeld and William L. Hase) of the textbook Chemical Kinetics and Dynamics, Second Edition (Pearson, 1989) and has co-authored over 850 journal articles. He has given 580 invited lectures at universities around the world. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences as well as the National Academy of Sciences.
Content
Preface; 1. The integrated earth system and the atmosphere; 2. Transport of chemical species in the atmosphere; 3. Fundamental principles governing chemistry in the atmosphere; 4. Measurement of chemical species in the atmosphere; 5. Atmospheric chemistry models; 6. Chemistry in the troposphere; 7. Chemistry of the stratosphere; 8. Heterogeneous chemistry and aerosols in the atmosphere; 9. Chemistry in the mesosphere; 10. Impact of atmospheric chemistry; 11. Atmospheric chemistry connections across the integrated earth system; Appendix I. Physical data and units; Appendix II. Derivation of the Stefan-Boltzmann law; Appendix III. Derivation of the origin of absorption and absorption cross- section; Appendix IV. Beer-Lambert law derivation; Appendix V. Natural rainwater pH; Appendix VI. Henry's law derivation; Appendix VII. Useful equations; Index.