
Atmospheric Chemistry Modeling Group – Harvard University
Group Leaders Daniel J. Jacob and Loretta J. Mickley
Introduction to Atmospheric Chemistry, 2nd edition
by Daniel J. Jacob, Harvard University
This is the second edition of my Introduction to Atmospheric Chemistry textbook. It covers the fundamentals of the field at a level suitable for advanced undergraduates and first-year graduate students in science and engineering, The chapters are password-protected but I will give the password to instructors upon email request. My Lecture slides in atmospheric chemistry follow the individual chapters of the book and are a useful complement.
The book will be published by Princeton University Press toward the end of 2026 at which point it will be available for personal and institutional purchase including in e-format. This post will remain active until then.
- Preface
- Chapter 1: Measures of atmospheric composition
- Questions and problems for Chapter 1
- Chapter 2: Atmospheric pressure
- Questions and problems for Chapter 2
- Chapter 3: Simple models
- Questions and problems for Chapter 3
- Chapter 4: Atmospheric transport
- Questions and problems for Chapter 4
- Chapter 5: Global biogeochemical cycling: nitrogen, oxygen, carbon
- Questions and problems for Chapter 5
- Chapter 6: Chemical forcing of climate change
- Questions and problems for Chapter 6
- Chapter 7: Review of chemical kinetics
- Chapter 8: Stratospheric chemistry
- Questions and problems for Chapter 8
- Chapter 9: Tropospheric oxidant chemistry
- Questions and problems for Chapter 9
- Chapter 10: Aerosol chemistry
- Questions and problems for Chapter 10
- Chapter 11: Atmospheric mercury
- Questions and problems for Chapter 11



