A tribute to the publishers of classic atmospheric science books

The last four posts celebrated the publishers of classic physics books.  Today I'd like to pay homage to publishers of classic atmospheric science books.  Several of the major publishers we've already met - Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Springer, and Wiley - all have major contributions to this literature and appear to remain active in this field.  I will spare readers a laundry list of examples from these publishers.

The main focus of this post is to honor Academic Press, which became an imprint of Harcourt, and now Elsevier.  Wallace & Hobbs' Atmospheric Science:  An Introductory Survey and the 6-volume Encyclopedia of Atmospheric Sciences are signature examples of their portfolio.  However, what "AP" may most be known for is its long-lived International Geophysics Series, which began in 1959 with volume 1, Beno Gutenberg's Physics of the Earth's Interior.  Its most recent volume was published 55 years later, the second edition of Robert Houze's Climate Dynamics, vol. 104 of the series.  The publisher's website lists this as a still-active series, but I do not know of any new volumes since 2014.  Each volume in the series was numbered, and new editions of existing books received their own volume number.

At one time, the series editor was William L. Donn of Columbia University, but later in "my" era (the late 1990s and early 2000s) the editors were Renata Dmowska (Harvard) and James R. Holton (U. Washington), joined later by H. Thomas Rossby (U. Rhode Island).  The series covered all of geophysics, but as the focus today is on atmospheric sciences, let me name a few prominent entries:  Holton's own An Introduction to Dynamic Meteorology, Fleagle & Businger's An Introduction to Atmospheric Physics, Salby's Fundamentals of Atmospheric Physics (a later edition of which is published by Cambridge University Press), Curry & Webster's Thermodynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans, Brown's Fluid Mechanics of the Atmosphere, Cushman-Roisin's Introduction to Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, Gill's Atmosphere-Ocean Dynamics, Arya's Introduction to Micrometeorology, Marshall & Plumb's Atmosphere, Ocean, and Climate Dynamics, Chamberlain's Theory of Planetary Atmospheres, and Wilks' Statistical Methods in the Atmospheric Sciences.  One could go on and on.

In "my" era, the series volumes did not have a uniform "look", unlike the old McGraw-Hill International Series on Pure and Applied Physics, with their green covers with black and gold trim.  Nonetheless, with a 55-year run including many classics, the International Geophysics Series is ubiquitous on atmospheric scientists' bookshelves.