Preface -- Author biography -- Introduction -- Composition of the atmosphere -- Observed vertical structureThermodynamics of dry air -- Pressure, temperature and the ideal gas law -- Hydrostatic balance -- Atmospheric energy and the first law of thermodynamics -- Entropy and the second law of thermodynamics -- Static stabilityThermodynamics of moist air -- Thermodynamics of moist non-condensing air -- Condensation and evaporation -- The moist adiabat -- Static stability of a moist atmosphere with condensation -- Mixing clouds and contrailsCloud microphysics -- Homogeneous nucleation -- Heterogeneous nucleation and aerosols -- Droplet growth by condensation -- From cloud droplets to precipitationAtmospheric radiation -- Electromagnetic radiation -- Interaction between radiation and matter: some generalities -- Molecular absorption -- Scattering -- Absorption by cloud drops -- Radiative transfer : generalities -- Radiative transfer of longwave radiation -- Absorption and emission spectra of Earth's atmosphere -- Some scattering effectsThe atmospheric boundary layer -- Scale separation and Reynolds averaging -- Closure, mixing length and flux-gradient relations -- The Ekman layer -- The surface layer -- Static stability and the Monin-Obukhov similarity.