Randall, David A.  1948- <br/><br/>
An introduction to the global circulation of the atmosphere / 
David Randall. 
 - ix, 442 pages :  illustrations, maps ;  26 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-436) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780691148960 0691148961 
<br/><br/><label>Standard No.: </label>12146330 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2014043658 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Atmospheric circulation--Study and teaching.<br/>Meteorology--Study and teaching.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>QC880.4.A8  / R35 2015 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>551.51/7