Abstract
This authoritative monograph summarizes an area to which the author and his students have made major contributions. In some ways it is more up to date than the journal literature , since it includes a sprinkling of results from Ph.D. theses. However, results from the Uranus encounter by Voyager are mentioned only briefly. The emphasis is aeronomical, with no discussion of meteorological topics, and the region discussed seldom ventures deeper than the 1‐bar level. As an example, radio astronomical work in the centimeter region and implications for the ammonia abundance and distribution are not considered. There is, however, discussion of transport of internal heat and of the formation of cloud layers. The bodies treated are the four Jovian planets and the satellites Io, Titan, and Triton; other Galilean satellites and Saturn's rings, with their extremely tenuous and mostly hypothetical atmospheres, are briefly discussed. Curiously, Pluto is omitted, except for a table at the end.
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