TY  - BOOK
AU  - Randall,David A.
TI  - Introduction to the global circulation of the atmosphere
SN  - 9780691148960 (hardcover : alk. paper)
U1  - 551.517 
PY  - 2015///
CY  - New Jersey
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Atmospheric circulation
KW  - Study and teaching
KW  - Meteorology
N1  - 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
ER  -