Visconti Fundamentals of Physics and Chemistry of the Atmosphere

Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-3-662-04540-4
Verlag: Springer
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 593 Seiten, Web PDF

This book originates from the translation of an Italian textbook on the physics and chemistry of the atmosphere. The idea for this earlier effort came to me after I published, in 1989, "L' Atmosfera", a popular science book. A few years later I discovered, to my great surprise, that it was adopted as a textbook by a few univer sities or university courses. The publication of the book coincided with the intro duction in Italy of a university curriculum on Environmental Science and a partial reform of the physics curriculum that allows the teaching of courses like Atmos pheric Physics, Meteorology and Environmental Physics. This convinced me to adapt the popular book to a full textbook although the effort turned out to be a much harder job than I thought. The content of the present book is not simply the translation from the Italian be cause it has been largely rewritten. Still, it contains basically what I have been teaching in my courses of Atmospheric Physics and Geophysics in the last twenty years. In doing that I have looted many "sacred texts". These may be divided into two categories: there are those like the book by J. M. Wall ace and P. V. Hobbs (see references) wh ich deal mostly with thermodynamics, radiation and dynamics at an elementary level and those like the book by 1. Holton, J. Pedlosky, A. Gill, K. Liu, etc. which are mostly professional texts and in some cases very specific.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Visconti, Guido

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Introduction.- 2 Thermodynamics of the Atmosphere.- 3 Radiation: The First Steps.- 4 Origin and Evolution of the Atmospheres.- 5 The First Laws of Motion.- 6 A Few Simple Applications.- 7 The Atmospheric Motions.- 8 The Planetary Boundary layer.- 9 Aerosols and Clouds.- 10 Waves in the Atmosphere.- 11 The Data on the Atmospheric Circulation.- 12 Theories on the General Circulation of the Atmosphere.- 13 Radiation for Different Uses.- 14 Simple Climate Models.- 15 The Application of the Simple Climate Models.- 16 Chemistry of the Troposphere.- 17 Dynamics of the Middle Atmosphere.- 18 Stratospheric Chemistry.- 19 Chaos in the Atmosphere.- Appendix A.- A.1 Constructing a Tephigram.- Appendix B.- B.1 Flow Over an Obstacle: The Numerical Solution.- Appendix C.- C.1 The Quasi Geostrophic Potential Vorticity in log-p Coordinates.- C.2 The Eliassen and Palm Flux Terms.- C.3 Energy and EP Flux.- C.4 The WKB Approximation.- C.5 The Numerical Solution to the Wave Equation.- Appendix D.- Appendix E.- E.1 A Listing for the North’s Spectral Model.- E.2 Program for the Sellers Model.- Appendix F.- F.1 The Model for Stochastic Resonance.- F.2. The FORTRAN Program.- Symbols.- References.