A quantitative introduction to the Earth's atmosphere for intermediate-advanced undergraduate and graduate students, with an emphasis on underlying physical principles. This edition has been brought completely up-to-date, and now includes a new chapter on the physics of climate change which builds upon material introduced in earlier chapters, giving the student a broad understanding of some of the physical concepts underlying this most important and topical subject. In contrast to many other books on atmospheric science, the emphasis is on the underlying physics. Atmospheric applications are developed mainly in the problems given at the end of each chapter. The book is an essential resource for all students of atmospheric physics as part of an atmospheric science, meteorology, physics, Earth science, planetary science, or applied mathematics course. Uses a variety of basic physical principles, together with standard mathematical tools familiar to physics students, to build up an understanding of the most important atmospheric phenomena Places an emphasis on the underlying physics, while atmospheric applications are developed mainly in the problems at the end of chapters, which help students test their understanding of the material Solutions to the student problems and all the figures from the book are available for instructors to download from the book's website A new chapter builds on material covered earlier to give students a broad understanding of the physical concepts underlying the topic of climate change
- ISBN: 9780521693189
- Editorial: Cambridge University Press
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 248
- Fecha Publicación: 01/04/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
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