The Earth’s Atmosphere Its Physics and Dynamics /

• Main Author: Saha, Kshudiram (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2008.
• Subjects: Earth sciences.; Climatology.; Geophysics.; Oceanography.; Atmospheric sciences.; Ecotoxicology.; Earth Sciences.; Atmospheric Sciences.; Geophysics/Geodesy.

This book covers a wide area of the atmospheric science, focusing particularly on those physical and dynamical aspects of our environment which tend to create heat sources and sinks in the earth-atmosphere system and which it seeks to balance through circulation at different time and space scales. T...

Table of Contents:

• Physics of the Earth’s Atmosphere
• The Sun and the Earth – The Solar System and the Earth’s Gravitation
• The Earth’s Atmosphere – Its Origin, Composition and Properties
• Heat and Thermodynamics of the Atmosphere
• Water Vapour in the Atmosphere: Thermodynamics of Moist Air
• Physics of Cloud and Precipitation
• Physics of Radiation – Fundamental Laws
• The Sun and its Radiation
• The Incoming Solar Radiation – Interaction with the Earth’s Atmosphere and Surface
• Heat Balance of the Earth’s Surface – Upward and Downward Transfer of Heat
• Heat Balance of the Earth-Atmosphere System – Heat Sources and Sinks
• Dynamics of the Earth’s Atmosphere – The General Circulation
• Winds on a Rotating Earth – The Dynamical Equations and the Conservation Laws
• Simplified Equations of Motion – Quasi-Balanced Winds
• Circulation, Vorticity and Divergence
• The Boundary Layers of the Atmosphere and the Ocean
• Waves and Oscillations in the Atmosphere and the Ocean
• Equatorial Waves and Oscillations
• Dynamical Models and Numerical Weather Prediction (N.W.P.)
• Dynamical Instability of Atmospheric Flows – Energetics and Energy Conversions
• The General Circulation of the Atmosphere.