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Title: Introduction to Atmospheric Chemistry by Daniel Jacob ISBN: 0-691-00185-5 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 21 December, 1999 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $55.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (2 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: good introduction
Comment: I took Prof. Jacob's undergraduate class in atmospheric chemistry at Harvard. Not surprisingly, this was the book we used. Overall it is well written and a good introduction to the field, and is relatively inexpensive for a textbook.
As the other reviewer pointed out, the exercises are very good. Occasionally the book saves critical issues for the exercises which depending on your point of view could be a weakness. Also, some of the chapters are lacking in depth: the book is adopted from his lecture notes and indeed it often reads as a set of notes and is brief and terse in some parts.
Rating: 4
Summary: An excellent addition to the field
Comment: I used Prof. Jacob's pre-press web edition of this book to teach 20+ bachelor's students Atmospheric Chemistry at the University of Copenhagen during the fall of 1999. I have found it difficult to find an appropriate introductory level text for this class, and have usually been borrowing material for the class from four or five other books. The book is well written and a pleasure to read, but the real treat are the problems at the end of each chapter. Jacob has scoured the literature and illustrates important points in each chapter using recent advances in the field. The students and their instructor learned a great deal from the author's insightful choice of topics. The book reflects the author's perspective of the field, and is longer on atmospheric physics and shorter on chemistry than the title implies. I would have liked more information on aerosols, and the students definitely would have liked more introductory material on chemistry. Overall I would recommend this book to professionals interested in learning more about global warming or ozone depletion, and to teachers looking for a good book for bachelors or new graduate students.
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Title: Chemistry of the Upper and Lower Atmosphere : Theory, Experiments, and Applications by Barbara Finlayson-Pitts, James Jr. Pitts ISBN: 012257060X Publisher: Academic Press Pub. Date: 10 November, 1999 List Price(USD): $99.95 |
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Title: Fundamentals of Atmospheric Modeling by Mark Z. Jacobson ISBN: 0521637171 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 28 September, 1998 List Price(USD): $65.00 |
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Title: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics : From Air Pollution to Climate Change by John H. Seinfeld, Spyros N. Pandis ISBN: 0471178160 Publisher: Wiley-Interscience Pub. Date: October, 1997 List Price(USD): $88.95 |
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Title: Atmospheric Pollution by Mark Z. Jacobson ISBN: 0521010446 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 15 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $55.00 |
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Title: Atmospheric Chemistry in a Changing World by Guy Brasseur, Ronald G. Prinn, Alexander A. P. Pszenny, International Global Atmospheric Chemistry (Igac) Project ISBN: 3540430504 Publisher: Springer Verlag Pub. Date: 16 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $119.00 |
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