Band models are an important working tool for radiation transport in meteorology, engineering heat transfer, and astrophysics, says Young, a physicist in the aerospace industry, but there was no text that thoroughly treated the full range of the theoretical foundations of the discipline. Now there is. He unifies the approaches used in the three disciplines and provides a consistent and unencumbered notation, while retaining their emphasis on molecular band systems. Treating in turn uniform and non-uniform optical paths, he considers such topics as absorption by isolated lines, exact band models, hybrid and cluster models, the adaptation of uniform band models, and exponent-pressure models. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)