This volume introduces concepts and processes used in atmospheric science. As an excellent resource for finding basic knowledge on air systems, this new edition discusses climate change effects on polar regions and climatology, aerosols monitoring and mapping, ocean circulation, greenhouse gases, Greenland ice sheet, and more.

Section I: Atmosphere 1. Acid Rain and Nitrogen Deposition 2. Acid Rain and Precipitation Chemistry 3. Air Pollutants: Elevated Carbon Dioxide 4. Albedo 5. Arctic Oscillation 6. Asian Monsoon 7. Atmospheric Acid Deposition 8. Atmospheric Circulation: General 9. Circulation Patterns: Atmospheric and Oceanic 10. Dew Point Temperature 11. Estimating Arctic Sea-Ice Shortwave Albedo 12. Fronts 13. Land-Atmosphere Interactions 14. Ozone and Ozone Depletion 15. Transpiration and Physical Evaporation: United States Variability 16. Water Storage: Atmospheric Section II: Weather and Climate 17. Agroclimatology 18. Climate: Classification 19. Climate: Extreme Events 20. Climate and Climatology 21. Climatology: Moist Enthalpy and Long-Term Anomaly Trends 22. Crops and the Atmosphere: Trace Gas Exchanges 23. Drought: Management 24. Drought: Precipitation, Evapotranspiration, and Soil Moisture 25. Drought: Resistance 26. El Nino, La Nina, and the Southern Oscillation 27. Meteorology: Tropical 28. Ocean-Atmosphere Interactions 29. Oceans: Observation and Prediction 30. Tropical Cyclones 31. Urban Heat Islands 32. Wind Speed Probability Distribution Section III: Climate Change 33. Climate Change 34. Climate Change: Boreal Forests 35. Climate Change: Coastal Marine Ecosystems 36. Climate Change: Polar Regions 37. Climate Change: Effects on Habitat Suitability of Tree of Heaven along the Appalachian Trail 38. Climate Change: Ecosystem Dynamics along the Appalachian Trail 39. Spatial and Temporal Variations in Global Land Surface Phenology 40. Spatiotemporal Variations in Precipitation and Temperature over Northeastern Eurasia, 1961-2010