An engaging, comprehensive, richly illustrated advanced undergraduate and graduate level textbook about the atmospheric general circulation, written by leading researchers. This textbook relates fundamental theoretical principles to observations, and contains extensive exercises and online resources.
An engaging, comprehensive, richly illustrated advanced undergraduate and graduate level textbook about the atmospheric general circulation, written by leading researchers. This textbook relates fundamental theoretical principles to observations, and contains extensive exercises and online resources.
John M. Wallace is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Atmospheric Sciences of the University of Washington. He served as Department Chair from 1983-1988. He is a recipient of the James B. Macelwane and Roger Revelle Medals of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), and the Clarence Leroy Meisinger Award and Carl-Gustav Rossby Medal of the American Meteorological Society (AMS). He is a Fellow of the AGU and the AMS, a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is the co-author (with Peter Hobbs) of Atmospheric Sciences: An Introductory Survey (2006), one of the most influential textbooks in the field.
Inhaltsangabe
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.
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.
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