Introduction to Atmospheric Chemistry

Introduction to Atmospheric Chemistry. Peter V. Hobbs. 2000. 262 pp. $24.95. Paperbound. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-77800-X.

Atmospheric chemistry is a relatively new discipline that has become increasingly important in the last 20 years in studying a variety of environmental problems of interest to earth and environmental scientists. Air pollution, acid rain, the ozone hole, and the atmospheric portions of the biogeochemical cycles of carbon, nitrogen, and sulfur are among the topics that have been the subjects of intense interest recently and that are discussed in this textbook.

Introduction to Atmospheric Chemistry by Peter Hobbs briefly reviews the basic …