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Introduction to the global circulation of the atmosphere / David Randall.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: New Jersey Princeton University Press 2015Description: ix, 442 pages : hbkISBN:
  • 9780691148960 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 0691148961 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 551.517 RAN
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.
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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.

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