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The Atmospheric General Circulation de John M. Wallace

The Atmospheric General Circulation

Autor John M. Wallace, David S. Battisti, David W. J. Thompson, Dennis L. Hartmann
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 20 apr 2023

Observăm în The Atmospheric General Circulation o resursă pedagogică ce pune accent pe aplicabilitatea practică a principiilor teoretice prin utilizarea unui set impresionant de peste 300 de exerciții și instrumente moderne de vizualizare digitală. Lucrarea reușește să conecteze rigurozitatea matematică a dinamicii fluidelor cu observațiile empirice, oferind studenților nu doar ecuații, ci și o înțelegere intuitivă a modului în care mișcările atmosferice modelează sistemul terestru. Structura volumului este una progresivă și exhaustivă. John M. Wallace și colaboratorii săi au organizat materialul în șase părți distincte, începând cu modelele euristice și cerințele de bilanț (moment cinetic, masă, energie), continuând cu dinamica fluxului zonal mediu și interacțiunea undă-flux. Un aspect distinctiv este tratarea detaliată a stratosferei și a variabilității tropicale, inclusiv fenomene complexe precum El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO), care sunt adesea abordate tangențial în alte manuale. Considerăm această lucrare o evoluție naturală în opera lui John M. Wallace, autorul celebrului manual Atmospheric Science. Dacă acea lucrare anterioară a definit bazele domeniului acum trei decenii, noul titlu de la Cambridge University Pr. rafinează conceptele specifice circulației generale, integrând cercetări actuale și metodologii de cercetare moderne. Găsim aici o alternativă solidă la Introduction to Circulating Atmospheres pentru cursurile de fizică atmosferică, având avantajul unei abordări mai bogat ilustrate și al unei integrări superioare a resurselor digitale și al animațiilor care facilitează înțelegerea proceselor dinamice globale. Tonul este unul academic precis, menținând un echilibru între rigoarea teoretică și contextul istoric al descoperirilor din domeniu.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781108474245
ISBN-10: 1108474241
Pagini: 456
Dimensiuni: 223 x 287 x 25 mm
Greutate: 1.37 kg
Editura: Cambridge University Pr.
Locul publicării:New York, United States

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Recomandăm această carte studenților și cercetătorilor care au nevoie de o bază solidă în dinamica atmosferei. Cititorul câștigă o înțelegere profundă a proceselor climatice globale, susținută de resurse online interactive și exerciții aplicate. Este instrumentul ideal pentru a trece de la conceptele de bază ale meteorologiei la analiza avansată a circulației generale și a interacțiunilor complexe din stratosferă și troposferă.

Descriere scurtă

An engaging, comprehensive, richly illustrated textbook about the atmospheric general circulation, written by leading researchers in the field. The book elucidates the pervasive role of atmospheric dynamics in the Earth System, interprets the structure and evolution of atmospheric motions across a range of space and time scales in terms of fundamental theoretical principles, and includes relevant historical background and tutorials on research methodology. The book includes over 300 exercises and is accompanied by extensive online resources, including solutions manuals, an animations library, and an introduction to online visualization and analysis tools. This textbook is suitable as a textbook for advanced undergraduate and graduate level courses in atmospheric sciences and geosciences curricula and as a reference textbook for researchers.

Cuprins

Part I. Background: 1. Observations and Models; 2. Heuristic models of the general circulation; Part II. Balance Requirements for the General Circulation; 3. The angular momentum balance; 4. Mass balance of atmospheric trace constituents; 5. The balance of total energy; 6. The mechanical energy cycle; Part III. Dynamics of the Zonal Mean Flow: 7. Dynamics of the zonal mean flow; 8. Wave-mean-flow interaction; Part IV. The Stratospheric General Circulation; 9. The global circulation of the stratosphere; 10. Wave-mean flow interaction in the tropical stratosphere; Part V. The Zonally Varying Extratropical Tropospheric Circulation; 11. The boreal winter zonally-varying climatology; 12. The high frequency extratropical transients; 13. Low-frequency extratropical transients; Part VI. The Tropical General Circulation; 14. The annual mean circulation of the tropics; 15. Deep convection; 16. The seasons in the tropics; 17. El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO); 18. Intraseasonal variability of the tropical general circulation; 19. Higher frequency tropical weather systems; 20. Warm core tropical vortices; 21. Diurnal and higher frequency variability of the global circulation; Appendix A. Space and time averaging operations; Appendix B. The zonal momentum balance; Appendix C. Methods of identifying teleconnection patterns; Appendix D. Scaling and application of the Weak Temperature Gradient Approximation; Appendix E. Math symbols and abbreviations; Appendix F. Extended figure captions; Appendix G. Exercise answers.

Recenzii

'Sure to become the standard textbook and reference for those interested in the atmospheric circulation. Written by a team that can only be described as world-leading, and especially strong on graphical and visual aspects, the book will be immensely valuable for students and experienced scientists alike.' Geoffrey Vallis, University of Exeter
'Surpasses any textbook currently available on the large-scale fluid dynamics of our atmosphere. The balance between figures, equations, and qualitative discussion is superb. Insightful nuggets interspersed throughout will provide food for thought for advanced students and researchers at all levels.' Isaac Held, formerly Princeton University and GFDL/NOAA
'This book is an enormously broad and detailed overview of the atmospheric circulation that combines perspectives gained over the sixty-year career of the first author with resources and ideas that are truly up-to-date, ranging from the exploitation of global reanalysis datasets to provide illustrations of important atmospheric characteristics and phenomena, to discussion of very recent events such as the Tonga eruption earlier this year. Those who study the atmospheric circulation or, more broadly, the climate system, will find much here to inform and stimulate them. A book of this scope would surely not have been completed without the evident unselfish cooperation between the four main authors and the team of individual co-authors on particular chapters – to the great benefit of future readers. The illustrations alone, both those based on observations and those based on specially designed model studies, will be an immensely valuable resource to those teaching courses on the atmosphere and the climate.' Peter Haynes, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP), University of Cambridge
'This majestic, once-in-a-generation treatise is a graduate multi-course treasure-trove. The authors lead off starkly with the latest observations and ideas (heuristics), then lucidly review the rigorous skeleton of quantitative physical constraints and budgets. From that solid base, Parts III-V parade appreciatively through distinctly updated treatments of now-'classical' mid-20th century topics of the zonal mean and its deviations, and of the stratosphere, using the power of 21st-century theory, models, data, and (not least) display. The Tropics including moist variability and internal waves, long under-emphasized or scattered in the literature, are featured at generous length and depth in the especially novel contributions of Part VI.' Brian Mapes, Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science, University of Miami
'This book started with Mike Wallace wanting to write a summary of what has been learnt about the atmospheric general circulation since the mid-20th century. With the help of the other authors, this has been achieved in a superb book, containing a wonderful collection of figures together with a clear, concise theoretical development. It should be on the desk of anyone interested in the subject, from a student taking a course to a researcher aiming to enhance understanding of how the atmosphere works or how climate may change in future.' Sir Brian Hoskins, Imperial College London
'Written by a team of highly regarded experts, this up-to-date book covers a very wide range of topics in the atmospheric general circulation in a well-organized fashion. The thorough treatment of both concepts and the more advanced mathematics will make this an important resource for advanced students and experienced researchers alike.' David Straus, George Mason University
'This textbook provides a modern and comprehensive overview of the physical processes involved in the general circulation of the atmosphere. Rigorous discussions are accompanied by very clear schematics that make it easy to grasp even the most complex phenomena. It's engaging and fun … a real joy to read!' Giuseppe Torri, University of Hawaii
'For students with some background in atmospheric dynamics, this is a landmark new textbook that provides a fascinating exploration of numerous aspects of the general circulation of the atmosphere. Wallace and co-authors expand what can be expected in a book on the general circulation, including circulations on many timescales in the tropical and extratropical troposphere and middle atmosphere, in all cases building understanding of the observed flows and physical mechanisms.' Paul O'Gorman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
'This is a truly outstanding textbook that offers a comprehensive overview of the atmospheric circulation system and its variability on a wide range of spatial/temporal scales as well as various (thermo-) dynamical processes involved, including air-sea interaction in the Tropics, wave-mean interaction in midlatitudes and troposphere-stratosphere linkages in low and high latitudes. By praiseworthy efforts of the author team led by Mike Wallace, excellent balance is achieved between illustrating phenomena and theoretically interpretating the involved processes. Although most of the topics concern natural variability in the climate system, this book is undoubtedly beneficial for understanding the ongoing anthropogenic climate change.' Hisashi Nakamura, University of Tokyo
'This comprehensive study of the atmospheric general circulation, from the tropics to the pole, the troposphere to the stratosphere, strikes the right balance between observation, physical intuition, and theory. The authors have succeeded in producing an excellent textbook that is up-to-date, flexibly organized, and useful for multiple different classes – undoubtedly the go-to resource for experts and students alike.' Tiffany Shaw, University of Chicago

Descriere

An engaging, comprehensive, richly illustrated textbook about the atmospheric general circulation, relating theory to observations.