2) R. T. Pierrehumbert, Principles of Planetary Climate Cambridge University Press, 2010. 652 pp.
An excellent resource for planetary atmospheres. It walks you through concepts in ways that can be very insightful. At least half the book is on issues of radiation, where the author concentrated his efforts. In a few places, students can find the book somewhat idiosyncratic. (e.g., one chapter develops radiation theory with optical depth high at the top of the atmosphere and zero at the surface, which is the opposite of the convention used in all other textbooks and most research papers).

3) A. Sanchez-Lavega, Introduction to Planetary Atmospheres, Academic Press, 2010. 587 pp.
This book is a very good reference book for planetary atmospheres. It covers a lot more than we have time for in this course, however.

4) Taylor, F. W., Planetary Atmospheres, Oxford Univ. Press. 296 pp.
This book is shorter and at a lower level (upper undergraduate) than the graduate texts of Sanchez-Lavega or Pierrehumbert. It provides a great intro. The other books are needed for research-level depth.

Related Textbooks:

1) I. de Pater and J. Lissauer, Planetary Sciences (2nd Edition), Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Chapters 1, 3 & 4 cover introductory material, energy transport and planetary atmospheres, respectively.

2) J. S. Lewis, Physics and Chemistry of the Solar System, Revised Edition , Academic Press, 1997.
This book covers the whole Solar System and its coverage of atmopheres is biased towards a geochemical viewpoint.
An older book is: J. S. Lewis and R. G. Prinn, Planets and their Atmospheres: Origin and Evolution, Academic Press, 1984. This also takes a geochemical viewpoint of planetary atmospheres.

3) J. W. Chamberlain and D. M. Hunten, Theory of Planetary Atmospheres, 2nd Ed., Academic, 1987.
Although the title sounds broad, this book focuses on upper atmospheres and aeronomy, where it has good coverage but not easy for students to follow.

4) Y. L. Yung and W. B. DeMore, Photochemistry of Planetary Atmospheres, Oxford University Press, 1999.
Planetary atmospheres with a focus on the photochemistry.

5) J. C. G. Walker, Evolution of the Atmosphere, Macmillan, 1977. This old book is extremely well-written and lucid, but is now very out-of-date.

6) J.K. Beatty and A. Chaikin, eds., The New Solar System, 4th Edition, 1998.
This book gives a non-mathematical, but accurate, coverage of the Solar System. It is good introductory reading.

Radiative Transfer:

For issues of radiative transfer covered in this course, an excellent introductory text (the best one in my view) is the following:

1) G. Petty, A First Course in Atmospheric Radiation (2nd Ed.) , Sundog Publishers, 2006.

Introductory Atmospheric Science:

If you're new to atmospheric science, I suggest you read a small book from cover-to-cover. Several copies are available in the library:

R. M. Goody and J. C. G. Walker, Atmospheres (Foundations of Earth Science) , Prentice Hall, 1972.

Also, a larger, more extensive introductory book used in the Dept of Atmospheric Sciences for new undergrads or grad students (e.g., the ATM S 501 course) that you might find useful is:

J. M. Wallace and P. V. Hobbs, Atmospheric Science: An Introductory Survey , Academic Press, 2006.

Another, excellent, concise introductory book on atmospheric physics is:

D. G. Andrews, An Introduction to Atmospheric Physics, Cambridge University Press, 2010.