Randall, David A. 1948-
An introduction to the global circulation of the atmosphere / David Randall. - ix, 442 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-436) and index.
Perpetual motion -- What makes it go -- What goes on -- The rules of the game -- Go with the flow -- Up moist, down dry -- Heat where it's hot, and cool where it's cold -- A taxonomy of eddies -- What the eddies do -- A fluid dynamical commotion -- The future of the circulation -- Vectors, vector calculus, and coordinate systems -- Dimensional analysis, scale analysis, and similarity theories -- Why is the dissipation rate positive? -- Vertical coordinate transformations -- The moist adiabatic lapse rate -- Eddy kinetic energy and zonal kinetic energy -- Spherical harmonics -- Hermite polynomials.
9780691148960 0691148961
12146330
2014043658
Atmospheric circulation--Study and teaching.
Meteorology--Study and teaching.
QC880.4.A8 / R35 2015
551.51/7
An introduction to the global circulation of the atmosphere / David Randall. - ix, 442 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-436) and index.
Perpetual motion -- What makes it go -- What goes on -- The rules of the game -- Go with the flow -- Up moist, down dry -- Heat where it's hot, and cool where it's cold -- A taxonomy of eddies -- What the eddies do -- A fluid dynamical commotion -- The future of the circulation -- Vectors, vector calculus, and coordinate systems -- Dimensional analysis, scale analysis, and similarity theories -- Why is the dissipation rate positive? -- Vertical coordinate transformations -- The moist adiabatic lapse rate -- Eddy kinetic energy and zonal kinetic energy -- Spherical harmonics -- Hermite polynomials.
9780691148960 0691148961
12146330
2014043658
Atmospheric circulation--Study and teaching.
Meteorology--Study and teaching.
QC880.4.A8 / R35 2015
551.51/7