edited by John R Barker (Univ. Michigan)

Atmospheric chemistry is central to understanding global changes — ozone depletion, appearance of the polar ozone holes, and compositional changes which worsen the greenhouse effect. Because of its importance, work is progressing on many fronts.

This volume emphasizes the troposhere and stratosphere and has chapters on gas phase, condensed phase, and heterogeneous chemistry. Present progress is emphasized, and important future directions are also described.

This book fills a need not satisfied by any others and will be popular for some years to come. It informs students and newcomers to the field of the many facets of atmospheric chemistry and can be used as a text for advanced students. It is also a valuable desk reference summarizing activities by quite a number of the most active research groups.

Chapter 18 by Kolb et al. on heterogeneous chemistry is especially noteworthy because it represents a unique joint effort by several groups working on a very timely subject; they describe a conceptual framework and establish conventions which will be standard in future papers on this subject.

• A Brief Introduction to Atmospheric Chemistry (J R Barker)
• Chemistry of Ozone in the Urban and Regional Atmosphere (J H Seinfeld)
• Depletion of Tropospheric Ozone during Arctic Spring: Field and Laboratory Studies of the Role of Hydrocarbons (H Niki)
• Inverse Methods in Atmospheric Chemistry (R Prinn & D Hartley)
• NO_x in the Non-Urban Troposphere (M A Carroll & A M Thompson)
• Laser Fluorescence Detection of Atmospheric Hydroxyl Radicals (D R Crosley)
• Photooxidation of Selected Carbonyl Compounds in Air: Methyl Ethyl Ketone, Methyl Vinyl Ketone, Methacrolein and Methylglyoxal (W H Raber & G K Moortgat)
• Free Radical Chemistry of the Atmospheric Aqueous Phase (R E Huie)
• Energy Transfer, Spectroscopy, and Atmospheric Significance of Excited O₂, NO, and OH (T G Slanger & R A Copeland)
• Polar Processes in Ozone Depletion (J G Anderson)
• Laboratory Studies of Atmospheric Heterogeneous Chemistry (C E Kolb, D R Worsnop, M S Zahniser, P Davidovits, D R Hanson, A R Ravishankara, L F Keyser, M-T Leu, L R Williams, M J Molina & M A Tolbert)
• Experimental and Theoretical Studies of Atmospheric Inorganic Chlorine Chemistry (S P Sander et al.)
• and other papers