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Physics of the atmosphere /
This text provides a self-contained introductory graduate-level course in atmospheric physics for students of meteorology or physics. Assuming no prior knowledge other than basic mechanics and calculus, the author offers a solid overview of how the atmosphere functions, including topics such as ther...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autor principal: | |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bristol [England] (Temple Circus, Temple Way, Bristol BS1 6HG, UK) :
IOP Publishing,
[2014]
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| Colección: | IOP (Series). Release 1.
IOP expanding physics. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface
- Author biography
- Introduction
- Composition of the atmosphere
- Observed vertical structure
- Thermodynamics of dry air
- Pressure, temperature and the ideal gas law
- Hydrostatic balance
- Atmospheric energy and the first law of thermodynamics
- Entropy and the second law of thermodynamics
- Static stability
- Thermodynamics of moist air
- Thermodynamics of moist non-condensing air
- Condensation and evaporation
- The moist adiabat
- Static stability of a moist atmosphere with condensation
- Mixing clouds and contrails
- Cloud microphysics
- Homogeneous nucleation
- Heterogeneous nucleation and aerosols
- Droplet growth by condensation
- From cloud droplets to precipitation
- Atmospheric radiation
- Electromagnetic radiation
- Interaction between radiation and matter: some generalities
- Molecular absorption
- Scattering
- Absorption by cloud drops
- Radiative transfer : generalities
- Radiative transfer of longwave radiation
- Absorption and emission spectra of Earth's atmosphere
- Some scattering effects
- The atmospheric boundary layer
- Scale separation and Reynolds averaging
- Closure, mixing length and flux-gradient relations
- The Ekman layer
- The surface layer
- Static stability and the Monin-Obukhov similarity.