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By
Judith Curry, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Peter Webster, University of Colorado, Boulder, U.S.A.
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International Geophysics,
Description
Atmospheric and climatological studies are becoming more and more important in day-to-day living. Winds and ocean current owe their existence
to the thermodynamic imbalances that arise from the differential heating of the Earth and air by the sun. Accounting for heat exchanges
with the atmosphere and ocean is essential in any predictive model of the ocean and/or atmosphere. Thermodynamic feedback processes in
the atmosphere and ocean are critical to understanding the overall stability of the Earth's climate and climate change. Water and its
phase changes make the thermodynamics of the atmosphere and ocean uniquely interesting and challenging.
Written by leading scientists
in the field, Thermodynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans incorporates all the relevant information from the varying fields
of dynamics meteorology, atmospheric physics and cloud physics, into a comprehensive, self-contained guide ideal for students and researchers
of atmospheric thermodynamics. At the moment, courses in atmospheric thermdynamics typically have to use one or two chapters in textbooks
on dynamic meteorology, atmospheric physics or cloud physics. This book combines these topics in one text.
Audience
Graduate and upper-level undergraduate students with backgrounds in physics, chemistry, mathematics, and engineering who are studying atmospheric science and oceanography.
Contents
Basic Concepts:
Composition, Structure, and State. First and Second Laws of Thermodynamics. Transfer Processes. Thermodynamics
of Water. Nucleation and Diffusional Growth. Moist Thermodynamics Processes in the Atmosphere. Static Stability of the Atmosphere and
Ocean. Cloud Characteristics and Processes. Ocean Surface Exchanges of Heat and Freshwater. Sea, Ice, Snow, and Glaciers. Thermohaline
Processes in the Ocean.
Special Topics:
Global Energy and Entropy Balances. Thermodynamics Feedbacks in the Climate
System. Planetary Atmospheres and Surface Ice. Appendices. Subject Index.
| Bibliographic details |
Hardbound, 471 pages, publication date: DEC-1998
ISBN-13: 978-0-12-199570-6
ISBN-10: 0-12-199570-4
Imprint: ACADEMIC PRESS
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