This beginning graduate-level text treats in detail the relations between internal, potential, and kinetic energy in the atmosphere. The first part of the book describes the generation, transformation, and dissipation of the basic energy quantities in the global atmosphere and the subdivision of these forms of energy in a number of energy reservoirs. The second part covers energetics in open domains and presents the major results of observational studies. Individual chapters discuss energetics of the tropics and the Southern Hemisphere and of such phenomena as the jet stream and stationary eddies. This will be a valuable text for advanced students in atmospheric dynamics.
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"Written for the atmospheric science graduate student. . . . a somewhat detailed mathematical framework with research results obtained since the 1950s." --Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
"I wish to congratulate the authors for producing this book. It provides an excellent description of the atmospheric energetics and their applications to various facets of the general circulation....Most of the mathematical derivations in this book are based on first principles and so are simple and lucid. This will not only help graduate students, for whom the book is meant, but also researchers from other branches of the atmospheric sciences....At the end of the book, there are useful problems and exercises for the readers to solve. To sum up, this book covers well the energetics of most aspects of the general circulations of both hemispheres and contains many useful derivations and diagrams based on computation. The book will be useful to researchers as well as graduate students. " --Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
"This is a well written textbook of atmospheric energetics for students of graduate courses in atmospheric sciences, and its content is rich enough to also make it a useful manual for professionals in this field....Should find its place in libraries of Physics and Earth Science departments of universities and other scientific institutions, as well as in many personal book collections of scientists dealing with the physics of planetary atmosopheres." --PAGEOPH
"I wish to congratulate the authors for producing this book. It provides an excellent description of the atmospheric energetics and their applications to various facets of the general circulation....Most of the mathematical derivations in this book are based on first principles and so are simple and lucid. This will not only help graduate students, for whom the book is meant, but also researchers from other branches of the atmospheric sciences....At the end of the book, there are useful problems and exercises for the readers to solve. To sum up, this book covers well the energetics of most aspects of the general circulations of both hemispheres and contains many useful derivations and diagrams based on computation. The book will be useful to researchers as well as graduate students. " --Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
"This is a well written textbook of atmospheric energetics for students of graduate courses in atmospheric sciences, and its content is rich enough to also make it a useful manual for professionals in this field....Should find its place in libraries of Physics and Earth Science departments of universities and other scientific institutions, as well as in many personal book collections of scientists dealing with the physics of planetary atmosopheres." --PAGEOPH
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Aksel Wiin-Nielsen, Geophysical Institute. Tsing-Chang Chen, Department of Geological and Atmospheric Science, Iowa State University.
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tropical energetics, wave enstrophy, energy vacillation, barotropic kinetic energy, perturbation available potential energy, higher latitude jet, spectral energetics, autumn buildup, atmospheric energetics, enstrophy budget, three wave groups, ultralong waves, general circulation statistics, divergent circulation, direct overturning, zonal available potential energy, atmospheric kinetic energy, eddy available potential energy, kinetic energy budget, zonal kinetic energy, equatorial waves, sensible heat transport, zonal energies, tropical easterly jet, stationary long waves Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Northern Hemisphere, North American, Indian Ocean, Bay of Bengal, Pacific Ocean, East Asia, Latitude Fig, North Atlantic, North Pole, United States, Wavenumber Fig, June Jul, After Krishnamurti, Coherency Phase, Days Gate, Height Wave, Marshall Islands, North Africa, Quantity Frequency, Temperature Wave, Wavenumber Wavenumber New!
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tropical energetics, wave enstrophy, energy vacillation, barotropic kinetic energy, perturbation available potential energy, higher latitude jet, spectral energetics, autumn buildup, atmospheric energetics, enstrophy budget, three wave groups, ultralong waves, general circulation statistics, divergent circulation, direct overturning, zonal available potential energy, atmospheric kinetic energy, eddy available potential energy, kinetic energy budget, zonal kinetic energy, equatorial waves, sensible heat transport, zonal energies, tropical easterly jet, stationary long waves Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Northern Hemisphere, North American, Indian Ocean, Bay of Bengal, Pacific Ocean, East Asia, Latitude Fig, North Atlantic, North Pole, United States, Wavenumber Fig, June Jul, After Krishnamurti, Coherency Phase, Days Gate, Height Wave, Marshall Islands, North Africa, Quantity Frequency, Temperature Wave, Wavenumber Wavenumber New!
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- Large-Scale Dynamical Processes in the Atmosphere by Brian Hoskins in Back Matter
- Numerical Weather Prediction by George J. Haltiner in Back Matter
- An Introduction to Dynamic Meteorology, Volume 88, Fourth Edition (International Geophysics) by James R. Holton in Back Matter
- Answers To Problems in Random Data: Analysis And Measurement Procedures Second Edition - Revised And Expanded by Julius S. Bendat in Back Matter
- Theoretische Meteorologie: Eine Einführung (German Edition) by Dieter Etling in Back Matter
- Adiabatic Invariants in Large-Scale Atmospheric Dynamics by Michael V. Kurgansky in Back Matter
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