📚 The Atmosphere

The envelope of air: layers and circulation, what we have changed in it, and the science that watches both.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject atmosphere in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	The atmosphere	Frederick K. Lutgens	1979	56
	Religion and chemistry	Josiah Parsons Cooke Jr.	1864	20
	Atmosphere, weather, and climate	Roger Graham Barry	1968	13
	Air is all around you	Franklyn M. Branley	1962	11
	Caesar's Last Breath	Sam Kean	2017	10
	The atmosphere	Camille Flammarion	1873	7
	Atmospheric Science	John Michael Wallace-Hadrill	1977	6
	Mid-latitude atmospheric dynamics	Jonathan E. Martin	2006	6
	L' air et le monde aérien	Arthur Mangin	1865	5
	Earth's aura	Louise B. Young	1977	5
	Theory of planetary atmospheres	Joseph W. Chamberlain	1978	5
	Atmospheric processes	James Hanwell	1991	5
	From turbulence to climate	Martin Beniston	1997	5
	Atmospheric Thermodynamics	J. V. Iribarne	2013	5
	Our astonishing atmosphere	J. Gordon Cook	1955	4
	Introduction to theoretical meteorology	Seymour L. Hess	1959	4
	The global circulation of the atmosphere	Adam H. Sobel	2007	4
	Exploring the earth system	Stephen Aja	2013	4
	The Layers of Earth's Atmosphere	Elizabeth Borngraber	2018	4
	An introduction to atmospheric physics	Robert Guthrie Fleagle	1963	3
	Oxygen keeps you alive	Franklyn M. Branley	1971	3
	The physics of atmospheres	John Theodore Houghton	1977	3
	A field guide to the atmosphere	Vincent J. Schaefer	1981	3
	Evaporation into the atmosphere	W. Brutsaert	1982	3
	Introduction to circulating atmospheres	Ian N. James	1994	3
	Carbon-Oxygen and Nitrogen Cycles	Rebecca Harman	2005	3
	Principles of Atmospheric Science	John E. Frederick	2008	3
	Dynamic Coupling Between Earth's Atmospheric and Plasma Environments	Tilmann Bosinger	2012	3
	Dynamics of the middle atmosphere	James R. Holton	1899	2
	Atmospheric chemistry	Julian Heicklen	1976	2

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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