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Fundamentals of Air Pollution, by A.C. Stern, R.W. Boubel, D.B. Turner and D.L. Fox, Academic Press Inc., Orlando, FL and London, 1984, 530 pp. Price: $ 39.50/£28.00. Superlative. The b o o k review could end here. All the more as everybody knows the first (1973) edition of the Fundamentals. If not everybody, then at least the generation of air pollution specialists who grew up with this book. The second edition contains 15 new chapters: on effects (human health and welfare, vegetation and animals, materials and structures, soil and water bodies); atmospheric chemistry, air sampling, analysis and measurement, monitoring and surveillance; the physics of the atmosphere, meteorological bases of atmospheric pollution including transport, dispersion, modeling, prediction and climatology; the control of stationary and mobile sources. The text m a y be used in several ways in the university curriculum. Part I, by itself, provides material for a short course to introduce a diverse group of students to the subject -- in this case the other five parts serving as a built-in reference book. Parts I, II and III can provide the basis for a semester's work, while Parts IV, V and VI provide the material for a second semester's work. Part IV may well be used separately as the basis for a course on the meteorology of air pollution. Besides its didactic value, the b o o k is a compendium for all involved directly or indirectly in decision making a b o u t air pollution control -- regulatory or engineering. Nowhere will the non-specialist find a more concise, technically correct answer to tantalizing problems, such as acidic deposition, the cost of abatement, effects (real, not imaginary) or uncertainties which still subsist.
Bre tigny-sur-Orge (France)
Michel Benarie
Optical Remote Sensing of Air Pollution, edited by P. Camagni and S. Sandroni, Elsevier Science Publishers, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1984, 422 pp. Price: DF1 260.00 (U.S. $100.00). The control and prediction of the dispersion, transport and transformation of atmospheric pollutants is limited by point-sampling networks, which are mostly surface-bound. Many inherent drawbacks of these confined and nevertheless expensive measuring techniques may be overcome by remote sensing. This b o o k is the o u t c o m e of a course, held in April 1983 at the Joint Research Centre Ispra (Italy) in the frame of its Education and Training Programme. It gives an overview of the present status and applications of optical remote sensing in the study of atmospheric pollution. Some of the techniques have undergone particularly rapid development in the past
Fundamentals of Air Pollution, by A.C. Stern, R.W. Boubel, D.B. Turner and D.L. Fox, Academic Press Inc., Orlando, FL and London, 1984, 530 pp. Price: $ 39.50/£28.00. Superlative. The b o o k review could end here. All the more as everybody knows the first (1973) edition of the Fundamentals. If not everybody, then at least the generation of air pollution specialists who grew up with this book. The second edition contains 15 new chapters: on effects (human health and welfare, vegetation and animals, materials and structures, soil and water bodies); atmospheric chemistry, air sampling, analysis and measurement, monitoring and surveillance; the physics of the atmosphere, meteorological bases of atmospheric pollution including transport, dispersion, modeling, prediction and climatology; the control of stationary and mobile sources. The text m a y be used in several ways in the university curriculum. Part I, by itself, provides material for a short course to introduce a diverse group of students to the subject -- in this case the other five parts serving as a built-in reference book. Parts I, II and III can provide the basis for a semester's work, while Parts IV, V and VI provide the material for a second semester's work. Part IV may well be used separately as the basis for a course on the meteorology of air pollution. Besides its didactic value, the b o o k is a compendium for all involved directly or indirectly in decision making a b o u t air pollution control -- regulatory or engineering. Nowhere will the non-specialist find a more concise, technically correct answer to tantalizing problems, such as acidic deposition, the cost of abatement, effects (real, not imaginary) or uncertainties which still subsist.
Bre tigny-sur-Orge (France)
Michel Benarie
Optical Remote Sensing of Air Pollution, edited by P. Camagni and S. Sandroni, Elsevier Science Publishers, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1984, 422 pp. Price: DF1 260.00 (U.S. $100.00). The control and prediction of the dispersion, transport and transformation of atmospheric pollutants is limited by point-sampling networks, which are mostly surface-bound. Many inherent drawbacks of these confined and nevertheless expensive measuring techniques may be overcome by remote sensing. This b o o k is the o u t c o m e of a course, held in April 1983 at the Joint Research Centre Ispra (Italy) in the frame of its Education and Training Programme. It gives an overview of the present status and applications of optical remote sensing in the study of atmospheric pollution. Some of the techniques have undergone particularly rapid development in the past