Air pollution and global warming : history, science, and solutions / Mark Z. Jacobson.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.Edition: 2nd edDescription: xviii, 375 p : col. ill ; 26 cmISBN:
  • 9781107021617 (hardback)
  • 9781107691155 (paperback)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 363.739/2 23
LOC classification:
  • TD883 .J33
Other classification:
  • SCI042000
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: 1. Basics and 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 the polluted and global atmosphere; 6. Effects of meteorology on air pollution; 7. Effects of pollution on visibility, UV radiation, and colors in the sky; 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; 13. Energy solutions to air pollution and global warming.
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Rev. ed. of: Atmospheric pollution. 2002.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: 1. Basics and 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 the polluted and global atmosphere; 6. Effects of meteorology on air pollution; 7. Effects of pollution on visibility, UV radiation, and colors in the sky; 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; 13. Energy solutions to air pollution and global warming.

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