| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Greenhouse Effect, Ozone Hole and Air Quality | p. 1 |
| Brief History | p. 1 |
| Accidents, Impacts and Regulatory Context | p. 4 |
| A Multiplayer Game | p. 8 |
| Role of Scientific Expertise | p. 10 |
| Atmospheric Dilemma | p. 12 |
| Book Objectives and Organization | p. 14 |
| Bibliography | p. 16 |
| Primer for the Atmospheric Composition | p. 17 |
| Atmospheric Chemical Composition | p. 17 |
| Trace Species | p. 17 |
| Gases, Aerosols and Water Drops | p. 20 |
| A Few Species | p. 21 |
| Primary and Secondary Species | p. 21 |
| Atmospheric Vertical Structure | p. 22 |
| Atmospheric Layers | p. 22 |
| Atmospheric Pressure | p. 25 |
| Vertical Distribution of Species | p. 27 |
| Timescales | p. 30 |
| Timescales of Atmospheric Transport | p. 30 |
| Atmospheric Residence Time for a Trace Species | p. 27 |
| Problems Related to Chap. 1 | p. 36 |
| Atmospheric Radiative Transfer | p. 46 |
| Primer for Radiative Transfer | p. 46 |
| Definitions | p. 46 |
| Energy Transitions | p. 46 |
| Emissions | p. 50 |
| Absorption | p. 52 |
| Scattering | p. 55 |
| Radiative Transfer Equation | p. 59 |
| Additional Facts for Aerosols | p. 60 |
| Albedo | p. 62 |
| Applications to the Earth's Atmosphere | p. 63 |
| Solar and Terrestrial Radiation | p. 63 |
| Radiative Budget for the Earth/Atmosphere System | p. 68 |
| Greenhouse Effect | p. 71 |
| Aerosols, Clouds and Greenhouse Effect | p. 77 |
| Atmospheric Pollution and Visibility | p. 84 |
| Problems Related to Chap. 2 | p. 87 |
| Atmospheric Boundary Layer | p. 93 |
| Meteorological Scales | p. 94 |
| Atmospheric Boundary Layer | p. 96 |
| Background | p. 96 |
| Classification | p. 97 |
| Thermal Stratification and Stability | p. 98 |
| A Few Useful Concepts | p. 99 |
| Stability | p. 101 |
| Moist Air | p. 103 |
| Daily Variation of the ABL Stability | p. 105 |
| ABL Turbulence | p. 106 |
| Background | p. 107 |
| Scale Range and Averaging | p. 108 |
| Turbulent Kinetic Energy | p. 110 |
| Mixing Height and Turbulence Indicators | p. 111 |
| Fundamentals of Atmospheric Dynamics | p. 113 |
| Primer for Fluid Mechanics | p. 113 |
| ABL Flow | p. 117 |
| A Few Facts for the Urban Climate | p. 325 |
| Thermal Forcing and Urban Breeze | p. 125 |
| Energy Budget | p. 126 |
| Urban Heat Island | p. 127 |
| Urban Boundary Layer | p. 129 |
| Problems Related to Chap. 3 | p. 130 |
| Gas-Phase Atmospheric Chemistry | p. 133 |
| Primer for Atmospheric Chemistry | p. 134 |
| Background for Chemical Kinetics | p. 134 |
| Photochemical Reactions | p. 138 |
| Atmosphere as an Oxidizing Reactor | p. 142 |
| Chemical Lifetime | p. 144 |
| Validity of Chemical Mechanisms | p. 149 |
| Stratospheric Chemistry of Ozone | p. 150 |
| Destruction and Production of Stratospheric Ozone | p. 150 |
| Ozone Destruction Catalyzed by Bromide and Chloride Compounds | p. 154 |
| Antarctic Ozone Hole | p. 156 |
| Tropospheric Chemistry of Ozone | p. 159 |
| Basic Facts for Combustion | p. 159 |
| Photostationary State of Tropospheric Ozone | p. 162 |
| Oxidation Chains of VOCs | p. 163 |
| NOx-Limited Versus VOC-Limited Chemical Regimes | p. 165 |
| Emission Reduction Strategies for Ozone Precursors | p. 167 |
| Example of Photochemical Pollution at the Regional Scale: Case of Île-de-France Region | p. 170 |
| Transcontinental Transport | p. 171 |
| Brief Introduction to Indoor Air Quality | p. 172 |
| Problems Related to Chap. 4 | p. 174 |
| Aerosols, Clouds and Rains | p. 179 |
| Aerosols and Particles | p. 180 |
| General Facts | p. 180 |
| Residence Time and Vertical Distribution | p. 186 |
| Aerosol Dynamics | p. 188 |
| Parameterizations | p. 193 |
| Aerosols and Clouds | p. 202 |
| Primer for Clouds | p. 202 |
| Saturation Vapor Pressure of Water, Relative Humidity and Dew Point | p. 203 |
| Condensation Nuclei | p. 204 |
| Mass Transfer Between the Gaseous Phase and Cloud Drops | p. 210 |
| Acid Rains and Scavenging | p. 212 |
| Acid Rains | p. 213 |
| Wet Scavenging | p. 218 |
| Problems Related to Chap. 5 | p. 222 |
| Toward Numerical Simulation | p. 231 |
| Reactive Dispersion Equation | p. 232 |
| Dilution and Off-Line Coupling | p. 232 |
| Advection-Diffusion-Reaction Equations | p. 232 |
| Averaged Models and Closure Schemes | p. 234 |
| Boundary Conditions | p. 238 |
| Model Hierarchy | p. 239 |
| Fundamentals of Numerical Analysis for Chemistry-Transport Models | p. 245 |
| Operator Splitting Methods | p. 245 |
| Time Integration of Chemical Kinetics | p. 249 |
| Advection Schemes | p. 254 |
| Numerical Simulation of the General Dynamic Equation for Aerosols (GDE) | p. 260 |
| Size Distribution Representation | p. 260 |
| Coagulation | p. 263 |
| Condensation and Evaporation | p. 263 |
| State-of-the-Art Modeling System | p. 265 |
| Forward Simulation | p. 265 |
| Uncertainties | p. 265 |
| Advanced Methods | p. 266 |
| Model-to-Data Comparisons | p. 274 |
| Applications | p. 275 |
| Next-Generation Models | p. 278 |
| Problems Related to Chap. 6 | p. 279 |
| Units, Constants and Basic Data | p. 283 |
| References | p. 285 |
| Index | p. 293 |
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