John M. Wallace (University of Washington), David S. Battisti (University of Washington), David W. J. Thompson (Colorado State University)

The Atmospheric General Circulation

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An engaging, comprehensive, richly illustrated advanced undergraduate and graduate level textbook about the atmospheric general circulation, written by leading researchers. This textbook relates fundamental theoretical principles to observations, and contains extensive exercises and online resources.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 456
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. April 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 287mm x 223mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 1364g
• ISBN-13: 9781108474245
• ISBN-10: 1108474241
• Artikelnr.: 66455138

Autorenporträt

John M. Wallace is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Atmospheric Sciences of the University of Washington. He served as Department Chair from 1983-1988. He is a recipient of the James B. Macelwane and Roger Revelle Medals of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), and the Clarence Leroy Meisinger Award and Carl-Gustav Rossby Medal of the American Meteorological Society (AMS). He is a Fellow of the AGU and the AMS, a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is the co-author (with Peter Hobbs) of Atmospheric Sciences: An Introductory Survey (2006), one of the most influential textbooks in the field.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Background: 1. Observations and Models
2. Heuristic models of the general circulation
Part II. Balance Requirements for the General Circulation
3. The angular momentum balance
4. Mass balance of atmospheric trace constituents
5. The balance of total energy
6. The mechanical energy cycle
Part III. Dynamics of the Zonal Mean Flow: 7. Dynamics of the zonal mean flow
8. Wave-mean-flow interaction
Part IV. The Stratospheric General Circulation
9. The global circulation of the stratosphere
10. Wave-mean flow interaction in the tropical stratosphere
Part V. The Zonally Varying Extratropical Tropospheric Circulation
11. The boreal winter zonally-varying climatology
12. The high frequency extratropical transients
13. Low-frequency extratropical transients
Part VI. The Tropical General Circulation
14. The annual mean circulation of the tropics
15. Deep convection
16. The seasons in the tropics
17. El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO)
18. Intraseasonal variability of the tropical general circulation
19. Higher frequency tropical weather systems
20. Warm core tropical vortices
21. Diurnal and higher frequency variability of the global circulation
Appendix A. Space and time averaging operations
Appendix B. The zonal momentum balance
Appendix C. Methods of identifying teleconnection patterns
Appendix D. Scaling and application of the Weak Temperature Gradient Approximation
Appendix E. Math symbols and abbreviations
Appendix F. Extended figure captions
Appendix G. Exercise answers.