Atmosphere, Climate, and Change
This book, pat of the Scientific American Library series, seeks to provide the educated reader with a thorough sense of the scientific understanding of the major global environmental issues involving changes in the climate and in atmospheric chemistry. The eight chapters cover the following topics: introduction to the earth system; agents of climate including radiation energy, water budget, atmospheric circulation, and atmospheric transport of pollutants; chemistry in the air; climates of the past; changing chemistry; predicting the near future; predicting the far future; change and sustainability.