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020			_a9780691148960 (hardcover : alk. paper)
020			_a0691148961 (hardcover : alk. paper)
041			_aeng
082	0	0	_a551.517 _bRAN
100	1		_aRandall, David A. _99868
245	1	3	_aIntroduction to the global circulation of the atmosphere / _cDavid Randall.
260			_aNew Jersey _bPrinceton University Press _c2015
300			_aix, 442 pages : _ehbk
505	0		_aPerpetual 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.
650		0	_aAtmospheric circulation _xStudy and teaching. _99869
650		0	_aMeteorology _xStudy and teaching. _99870
942			_cBK
999			_c30169 _d30169