Atmospheric Reaction Chemistry

This book is aimed at graduate students and research scientists interested in gaining a deeper understanding of atmospheric chemistry, fundamental photochemistry, and gas phase and heterogeneous reaction kinetics. It also provides all necessary spectroscopic and kinetic data, which should be useful as reference sources for research scientists in atmospheric chemistry. As an application of reaction chemistry, it provides chapters on tropospheric and stratospheric reaction chemistry, covering tropospheric ozone and photochemical oxidant formation, stratospheric ozone depletion and sulfur chemistry related to acid deposition and the stratospheric aerosol layer. This book is intended not only for students of chemistry but also particularly for non-chemistry students who are studying meteorology, radiation physics, engineering, and ecology/biology and who wish to find a useful source on reaction chemistry.

Dr. Hajime Akimoto received his B.S. in 1962 and PhD in 1967 in physical chemistry from Tokyo Institute of Technology. For his postdoctoral research he spent three years during 1969-71 in Department of Chemistry at University of California, Riverside, and worked on chemistry of photochemical air pollution. In 1974 he joined National Institute for Environmental Studies in Tsukuba as a head of Atmospheric Chemistry Section in Atmospheric Environment Division, and then serves as Chief of Atmospheric Environment Division and Global Environment Division.
Then, he moved to Research Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Tokyo as a professor in 1993. In 2000, he joined Frontier Research Center for Global Change now under Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology as a Director of Atmospheric Composition Research Program. After 2010 he serves as director general of Asia Center for Air Pollution Research in Niigata, Japan.