Chemistry of the Upper and Lower Atmosphere

Hardback  944 pages  ISBN 012257060X      £70.00

This is the most comprehensive and up-to-date treatment of one of the hottest areas of chemical research. The treatment of fundamental kinetics and photochemistry will be highly useful to chemistry students and their instructors at the graduate level, as well as postdoctoral fellows entering this new, exciting, and well-funded field. The book provides postgraduate researchers and teachers with a uniquely detailed, comprehensive, and authoritative resource. The text bridges the gap between the fundamental chemistry of the earth's atmosphere and real-world examples of its application to the development of sound scientific risk assessments and associated risk management control strategies for both tropospheric and stratospheric pollutants. It features more than 4,000 references to the literature up to approximately mid-1998, it provides new actinic flux data for the troposphere and stratosphere, as well as summaries of kinetic and photochemical data for the troposphere and stratosphere.