An introduction to the global circulation of the atmosphere / David Randall.

By: Randall, David A. (David Allan), 1948-Material type: TextTextPublisher: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: ix, 442 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780691148960; 0691148961Subject(s): Atmospheric circulation -- Study and teaching | Meteorology -- Study and teachingDDC classification: 551.51/7 LOC classification: QC880.4.A8 | R35 2015
Contents:
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.
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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.

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