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Exoplanetary atmospheres : theoretical concepts and foundations /

"The study of exoplanetary atmospheres--that is, of planets orbiting stars beyond our solar system--may be our best hope for discovering life elsewhere in the universe. This dynamic, interdisciplinary field requires practitioners to apply knowledge from atmospheric and climate science, astronom...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Heng, Kevin (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2017]
Colección:Princeton series in astrophysics.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Observations of exoplanetary atmospheres : a theorist's review of techniques in astronomy
  • Introduction to radiative transfer
  • The two-stream approximation of radiative transfer
  • Temperature-pressure profiles
  • Atmospheric opacities : how to use a line list
  • Introduction to atmospheric chemistry
  • A hierarchy of atmospheric chemistries
  • Introduction to fluid dynamics
  • Deriving the governing equations of fluid dynamics
  • The shallow water system : a fluid dynamics lab on paper
  • The de Laval nozzle and shocks
  • Convection, turbulence and fluid instabilities
  • Atmospheric escape
  • Outstanding problems of exoplanetary atmospheres
  • Appendices.