Planets and their atmospheres
Planets and their atmospheres
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行星及其大气层
DOI：
10.1016/0019-1035(84)90178-7
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发表时间：
1984
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影响因子：
3.2
通讯作者：
D. Stevenson
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作者：
D. Stevenson
行星科学方面还没有足够的、基础广泛且详尽的教科书。人们怀疑其中有几个原因：这个领域正在迅速变化，文本受到过时的威胁，这个领域是如此广泛和跨学科，以至于没有人或一小群人希望能够公正地对待它，相关作者太忙于从事科学或美国宇航局委员会的工作，或者也许这只是一项吃力不讨好的任务（考虑到所涉及的科学界规模很小，当然不是一项有利可图的任务）。在这种情况下，约翰·刘易斯和罗恩·普林在总结行星科学涉及的部分学科谱方面所做的学术尝试应该受到高度赞扬。他们的新文本可能是对行星大气的一种非常个人的（有些人会说是特殊的）观点，并且具有压倒性的化学视角，但它是无与伦比的。我希望它成为大多数行星科学家的宝贵参考资料。在我看来，这不是适合课程的文本，稍后会详细介绍。
There is no adequate, broadly based, yet thorough textbook in planetary science. One suspects several reasons for this: the field is changing rapidly and texts are threatened by obsolescence, the field is so broad and interdisciplinary that no person or small group of people could hope to do it justice, the appropriate authors are too busy doing science or NASA committee work, or maybe it is simply a thankless task (certainly not a lucrative one, given the small scientific community involved). In these circumstances, John Lewis and Ron Prinn should be highly commended for their scholarly attempt to summarize part of the spectrum of disciplines involved in planetary science. Their new text may be a very personal (some would say idiosyncratic) view of planetary atmospheres, and has an overwhelmingly chemical perspective, but it is without peer. I expect it to become an invaluable reference source for most planetary scientists. It is not, in my view, a suitable text for a course, but more on that later.