Introduction to the global circulation of the atmosphere /
Randall, David A.
Introduction to the global circulation of the atmosphere / David Randall. - New Jersey Princeton University Press 2015 - ix, 442 pages : hbk
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.
9780691148960 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0691148961 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Atmospheric circulation--Study and teaching.
Meteorology--Study and teaching.
551.517 / RAN
Introduction to the global circulation of the atmosphere / David Randall. - New Jersey Princeton University Press 2015 - ix, 442 pages : hbk
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.
9780691148960 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0691148961 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Atmospheric circulation--Study and teaching.
Meteorology--Study and teaching.
551.517 / RAN
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