Agustin Sanchez-Lavega

An Introduction to Planetary Atmospheres (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Providing a much-needed resource for this cross-disciplinary field, this text presents current knowledge on atmospheres and the fundamental mechanisms operating on them. It offers a unified scheme of the chemical and physical processes occurring in atmospheres and extends the theoretical foundations of an atmospheric topic to all planets and satellites with an atmosphere. The text provides an up-to-date comparative vision of the phenomena in atmospheres that encompasses the latest planetary space mission discoveries. It also reviews the observational methods and current facilities used to explore planetary atmospheres on Earth and in space.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 629
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. September 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781439894668
• Artikelnr.: 57150888

Autorenporträt

Agustin Sanchez-Lavega is a professor of physics, head of the Department of Applied Physics I, and head of the Planetary Sciences Group at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) in Bilbao, Spain. Between 2004 and 2006, he was a member of the Solar System Working Group of the European Space Agency. Dr. Sanchez-Lavega has authored more than 150 papers on the subject in refereed journals.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction to Planets and Planetary Systems. Origin and Evolution of
Planetary Atmospheres. Spectroscopy and Composition. Vertical Temperature
Structure. Clouds in Planets. Upper and Tenuous Atmospheres. Global
Atmospheric Motions. Atmospheric Dynamics-I: Waves. Atmospheric
Dynamics-II: Instability. Appendix. Bibliography. References. Index.