Coastal meteorology is an integral part of the total system approach to understanding coastal environments. This book provides information for students who are not necessarily majoring in meteorology or atmospheric sciences but who nonetheless have need of such knowledge. Scientists, engineers, and coastal planners will also find this book a useful resource for familiarizing themselves with meteorological information.
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"The book is nicely illustrated and contains most of what an undergraduate student needs to satisfy his/her curiosity about atmospheric principles (provided that mathematics is a subject of love and not of anxieties) before embarking on other marine topics of more focussed choice."
--METEOROLOGY AND ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS
--METEOROLOGY AND ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS
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The name meteorology comes from the Greek meteoros, meaning lofty, and logos, meaning a formal treatment of a subject (Wallace and Hobbs, 1977). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
convective internal boundary layer, eolian sand transport, oceanic thermal front, baroclinic field, modified boundary layer, mixing height, logarithmic wind profile, geostrophic wind, thermodynamic diagram, virtual temperature, atmospheric surface layer, synoptic meteorology, dispersion estimates, offshore applications, condensation level, dry adiabatic lapse rate, offshore regions, cyclonic circulation, planetary boundary layer, hydrostatic equation, surface boundary layer Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Gulf Stream, Gulf of Mexico, Korea Strait, Alboran Sea, Army Corps of Engineers, Gulf Coast, National Weather Service, After Hsu, New York, United States, Strait of Juan de Fuca, After Kotsch, Cape Hatteras, Caribbean Sea, Hurricane Frederic, Yellow Sea, Coastal Jets, Great Lakes, After Powell, Cape Farewell, North Carolina, Shoreline Environment, Tarpon Springs, Transport of Sea Salts, Baltic Sea New!
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The name meteorology comes from the Greek meteoros, meaning lofty, and logos, meaning a formal treatment of a subject (Wallace and Hobbs, 1977). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
convective internal boundary layer, eolian sand transport, oceanic thermal front, baroclinic field, modified boundary layer, mixing height, logarithmic wind profile, geostrophic wind, thermodynamic diagram, virtual temperature, atmospheric surface layer, synoptic meteorology, dispersion estimates, offshore applications, condensation level, dry adiabatic lapse rate, offshore regions, cyclonic circulation, planetary boundary layer, hydrostatic equation, surface boundary layer Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Gulf Stream, Gulf of Mexico, Korea Strait, Alboran Sea, Army Corps of Engineers, Gulf Coast, National Weather Service, After Hsu, New York, United States, Strait of Juan de Fuca, After Kotsch, Cape Hatteras, Caribbean Sea, Hurricane Frederic, Yellow Sea, Coastal Jets, Great Lakes, After Powell, Cape Farewell, North Carolina, Shoreline Environment, Tarpon Springs, Transport of Sea Salts, Baltic Sea New!
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- Handbook of Applied Meteorology by David D. Houghton on 4 pages
- Dynamical and Physical Meteorology by George J Haltiner in Back Matter
- Boundary Layer Climates by T. R. Oke in Back Matter
- Introduction to Mathematical Statistics (Probability & Mathematical Statistics) by Paul G. Hoel in Back Matter
- Great Lakes by Rh Value Publishing on page 180
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- Air Quality (Pageoph Topical Volumes) by Gandikota V. Rao on page 315, page 355, and page 426
- Environmental Chemodynamics: Movement of Chemicals in Air, Water, and Soil, 2nd Edition by Louis J. Thibodeaux on page 538, and page 539
- Environmental Oceanography: Second Edition (Marine Science Series) by Tom Beer on page 229
- The Sailor's Wind by Stuart H. Walker in Back Matter
- Encyclopedia of Climate and Weather: 2-Volume Set by Stephen H. Schneider on page 177
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