Richard A. Lindzen

Dynamics in Atmospheric Physics

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A text for first year graduate students in atmospheric sciences.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 324
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 528g
• ISBN-13: 9780521018210
• ISBN-10: 0521018218
• Artikelnr.: 22257850

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Introductory remarks
2. Simple energy balance climate models
3. Effect of transport on composition
4. 'Statics' of a rotating system
5. Observed atmospheric structures
6. Equations of motion
7. Symmetric circulation models
8. Internal gravity waves, 1
9. Atmospheric tides
10. Internal gravity waves, 2
11. Rissby waves and the Gulf stream
12. Vorticity and quasi-geostrophy
13. The generation of eddies by instability, 1
14. Instability 2: energetics and climate implications
Postscripts
Appendix - Gravity wave program
References.