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.

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