Air Composition & Chemistry, Second Edition.
Cambridge University Press, 1996.
(Series: Cambridge Environmental Chemistry Series, Volume 6.)
Book information: Publisher, Amazon.com.
An introduction to the chemistry of planetary atmospheres. The discussions of lapse rate and chemical kinetics had me reaching for a physical chemistry book: the author's discussion is necessarially compressed and incomplete; throughout the book the derivation of mathematical expressions for physical laws are compressed, abbreviated, and even completely eliminated. The book also lacks exercises. Despite these criticisms, this book is a very good introduction to the subject.
Standard textbooks in this area include:
- Richard P. Wayne.
Chemistry of Atmospheres: An Introduction to the Chemistry of the Atmospheres of Earth, the Planets, and Their Satellites, Third Edition.
Oxford University Press, 2002. - John H. Seinfeld and Spyros N. Pandis.
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics: From Air Pollution to Climate Change.
Wiley-Interscience, 1997. - Peter Warneck.
Chemistry of the Natural Atmosphere, Second Edition.
Academic Press, 1999. - Barbara J. Finlayson-Pitts and James N. Pitts, Jr.
Chemistry of the Upper and Lower Atmosphere: Theory, Experiments, and Applications.
Academic Press, 1999.