Shepson, P.B., & Domine, F. (Eds.). (2021) Advances in Atmospheric Chemistry-Volume 3: Chemistry in the Cryosphere (Parts 1 and 2). World Scientific.

Shepson, P.B., & Domine, F. (Eds.). (2021) Advances in Atmospheric Chemistry-Volume 3: Chemistry in the Cryosphere (Parts 1 and 2). World Scientific.

Summary

Ice and snow on Earth modulate and modify the climate, chemistry and fate of air and water pollutants. Climate change is drastically impacting Nature and extent of the cryosphere, with attendant feedbacks on atmospheric composition and climate. These changes are happening at a rate that outpaces the development of fundamental knowledge of processes that occur within/on the surfaces of ice and snow, confounding our ability to develop a predictive capability for future states of the Earth environment.

This set, comprising 17 chapters, written by world experts on these topics, are thus intended to document the current state of understanding of the structure, physical properties, abundance, and chemical and microbiological processes that occur within/on ice and snow in all Earth environments in which it exists, and to express needs for improvement of that understanding. This, only comprehensive treatise/collection that covers environmentally relevant chemistry and related physical aspects of snow and ice in the Earth system, and the connections to climate change, will be accessible to those with introductory college-level understanding of chemistry and physics.

Sample Chapter(s)
Foreword
Chapter 1: Cryosphere-Atmosphere Interactions

Contents:

  • Part 1:
    • Cryosphere-Atmosphere Interactions (Paul B Shepson)
    • The Chemical Composition of Snow and Glacial Ice (Florent Domine)
    • Microscopic Structure of Ice Surface Viewed through Sum Frequency Generation Spectroscopy (Fujie Tang, Takakazu Seki, Chun-Chieh Yu and Yuki Nagata)
    • Molecular Dynamics of Ice, Ice Surfaces and Impurities on Ice (Ivan Gladich and Steven Neshyba)
    • It’s Different at the Top: Air–Ice Interface Chemistry in the Cryosphere (Tara F Kahan and D James Donaldson)
    • Chemistry in Snow and Ice: What have We Learned and What Can We Do (Siyuan Wang)
    • Sea Salt in Polar Regions (Eric W Wolff, Rachael H Rhodes and Michel Legrand)
    • Polar Tropospheric Ozone Depletion Events (J W Halfacre and W R Simpson)s
  • Part 2:
    • Mercury in the Cryosphere (Alexandra Steffen, Hèlène Angot, Ashu Dastoor, Aurèlien Dommergue, Lars-Eric Heimbürger-Boavida, Daniel Obrist and Alexandre Poulain)
    • Isotopes as Tracers of Chemical Reactivity in Snow (Lei Geng)
    • Organics in Snow and Ice: Don’t Eat the Yellow Snow (Vanessa L Boschi and Amanda M Grannas)
    • Halogenated Organics in the Cryosphere (Cora J Young, Fred S Wong and Daniel Persaud)
    • Water Isotopes in Snow and Ice (Amaelle Landais)
    • The Cryospheric Archive of the Past Atmosphere: Aerosol and Soluble Gases in Ice Cores (Michel Legrand and Eric W Wolf)
    • Microbiology of the Cryosphere: Diversity, Habitat Constraints and Ecology (Catherine Larose, Lorrie Maccario and Timothy M Vogel)
    • Light-absorbing Particles in Snow and Climate (Marie Dumont and François Tuzet)
    • The Future? Big Questions about Feedbacks between Anthropogenic Change in the Cryosphere and Atmospheric Chemistry (Lisa A Miller, Florent Domine, Markus M Frey and Dario Trombotto Liaudat)

Readership: Undergraduate and graduate students, as well as researchers in environmental chemistry, atmospheric chemistry, environmental science and climate change.