An Introduction to Air Chemistry serves as a textbook on air chemistry and covers topics such as chemical principles, sampling and collection, treatment of data, and special methods of analysis. The atmospheric chemistry of sulfur compounds is also discussed, together with nitrogen compounds and ozone, aerosols, and carbon compounds.
This book is comprised of nine chapters and begins with a review of the relevant chemical and meteorological principles. The general methods for obtaining and handling air chemical data are then described, followed by a discussion on three classes of chemical compounds that are important in any consideration of trace constituents of the atmosphere, namely, sulfur compounds, carbon compounds, and nitrogen compounds and ozone. Significant atmospheric reactions, the global budgets, and selected methods of analysis for these compounds are considered. The final chapter examines some of the physical characteristics of aerosols.
This monograph will be a valuable resource for upper-level undergraduate and graduate-level students of analytical chemistry, meteorology, oceanography, and civil engineering, as well as for laboratory chemists, meteorologists, physical scientists, and technicians.

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Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1 Introduction
1.1 Approach to a Problem
1.2 Evolution and Present Composition of the Atmosphere
1.3 Chemical Cycles
1.4 Physicochemical Models
Problems
References
Chapter 2 Summary of Chemical Principles
2.1 Properties of Gases
2.2 Properties of Solutions
2.3 Properties of Small Droplets and Particles
2.5 Extinction of Radiation
2.6 Chemical Kinetics
Problems
References
Chapter 3 Sampling and Collection
3.1 Generalized Methods of Analysis
3.2 Sampling Methods
3.3 Sampling Trains
Problems
References
Chapter 4 Treatment of Data
4.1 Instrumental Error
4.2 Presentation of Data
Problems
References
Chapter 5 Special Methods of Analysis
5.1 Chromatography
5.2 Spectrometry
5.3 Nuclear Methods
5.4 Mass Spectrometry
5.5 Remote Sensing Applications of Lasers
5.6 Correlation Spectrometry
General References
References
Chapter 6 The Atmospheric Chemistry of Sulfur Compounds
6.1 Global Considerations
6.2 Reactions of Sulfur Compounds
6.3 A Mechanism for the Oxidation of SO2
6.4 Analytical Methods
Problems
References
Chapter 7 Nitrogen Compounds and Ozone
7.1 Reactions of Nitrogen Compounds
7.2 Global Aspects
7.3 Analytical Methods
Problems
References
Chapter 8 Carbon Compounds
8.1 Sources and Sinks of Carbon Dioxide
8.2 Sources and Sinks of Carbon Monoxide
8.3 Behavior of Carbon Oxides in the Atmosphere
8.4 Other Carbon Compounds
8.5 Analytical Methods
Problems
References
Chapter 9 Aerosols
9.1 Introduction
9.2 Sources and Sinks of Particulate Matter
9.3 Particle Size Distribution
9.4 Mechanical Properties of Aerosols
9.5 Diffusion and Coagulation
9.6 Optics of Aerosols
9.7 Measurement on Aerosols
Problems
References
Appendix 1 Units and Dimensions Used in Air Chemistry
Appendix 2 List of Symbols
Appendix 3 Glossary
Author Index
Subject Index