The Atmospheric Environment: Effects of Human Activity

Features

• Cover Type: Hard Cover with 360 pages
• Published by: Princeton University Press June 1, 2002
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0691006911
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0691006918
• Book Dimensions: 11 x 8.7 x 1.1 inches
• Weighs: 2.8 pounds

Product Review
Impressive new book.. . . . The entire book is authoritative, balanced, up-to-date and exceptionally well-written. -- Richard C. J. Somerville, American Journal of Physics

Michael McElroy's impressive new book is a bargain, for it is really two books in one. Approximately the first half is an accessible general atmospheric science text, and almost all the rest of the book is a comprehensive introduction to atmospheric chemistry. . . . The entire book is authoritative, balanced, up-to-date and exceptionally well-written. -- Review

Overall, this is an great book. . . . McElroy has done a service to the community. -- Drew T. Shindell , Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Product Review
Michael McElroy's impressive new book is a bargain, for it is really two books in one. Approximately the first half is an accessible general atmospheric science text, and almost all the rest of the book is a comprehensive introduction to atmospheric chemistry. . . . The entire book is authoritative, balanced, up-to-date and exceptionally well-written.
(Richard C. J. Somerville American Journal of Physics )

The breadth of this book sets it apart from most other introductory texts on either atmospheric chemistry or climate change, which are typically more restrictive in their focus to one of those two areas. . . . Overall, this is an great book. . . . McElroy has done a service to the community in creating a textbook with the potential to help create a future pool of educated people with a thorough yet broad background in the complex web of interactions related to human effects on the atmospheric environment.
(Drew T. Shindell Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society )

Reader Reviews
I took Mike's class at Harvard and found it fascinating. The book is thorough and extremely clear - when I first opened it I was intimidated by the number and complexity of some of the diagrams but all is explained in the book in short order. The chapters on climate change and urban ozone are particularly interesting. I think this book could easily be read even if you don't have a scientific bent by just skipping some of the more technical work - you don't need to understand the photolysis of ozone to understand smog. I don't know of any other text that applies to so well to a fairly broad audience. THe only group to whom I would not reccommend this book are serious grad-level atmospheric chemists. This would be a little infantile for that group.