"It integrates conventional textbook material on the science of air pollution with a wealth of historical
information on the key discoveries in the field, brought to life with potted biographies and anecdotal sketches,
all vividly illustrated with photographs, figures, satellite images and more...sufficiently rigorous and comprehensive
to be useful to students of environmental science and others with its up-to-date material, easy style, problems
and examples and outstanding illustrations...packed with enough quantitative and qualitative information to form
the basis of a lecture course, or to act as a primer for general reader interested in the whole issue of air pollution.
I do not think that there is a better book for engaging interest in the science of air pollution and I, for one,
will certainly be recommending it to my second-year students."
--Chemistry in Britain
"Jacobson, a prolific and well-regarded author, offers a clearly structured book designed for use in courses....
Recommended."
--Choice
Cambridge University Press Web Site, June, 2003
Summary
This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the history and science of major air pollution issues. It
begins with an introduction to the basic atmospheric chemistry and the history of discovery of chemicals in the
atmosphere, and then moves on to a discussion of the evolution of the earth's atmosphere, and the structure and
composition of the present-day atmosphere. It also offers a comprehensive and accessible discussion of the five
major atmospheric pollution topics: urban outdoor air pollution, indoor air pollution, acid deposition, stratospheric
ozone reduction, and global climate change.
Table of Contents
Preface
1. Basics and history of discovery of atmospheric chemicals
2. The Sun, the Earth, and the evolution of the Earth's atmosphere
3. Structure and composition of the present-day atmosphere
4. Urban air pollution
5. Aerosol particles in smog and the global environment
6. Effects of meteorology on air pollution
7. Effects of pollution on visibility, UV radiation, and atmosphere optics
8. International regulation of urban smog since the 1940s
9. Indoor air pollution
10. Acid deposition
11. Global stratospheric ozone reduction
12. The greenhouse effect and global warming
Conversions and constants
References
Index.
