Atmospheric Science
An Introductory Survey
- 2nd Edition - February 1, 2006
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Authors: John M. Wallace, Peter V. Hobbs
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 7 3 2 9 5 1 - 2
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 0 4 9 9 5 3 - 6
Atmospheric Science, Second Edition, is the long-awaited update of the classic atmospheric science text, which helped define the field nearly 30 years ago and has served as the co… Read more
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Request a sales quoteAtmospheric Science, Second Edition, is the long-awaited update of the classic atmospheric science text, which helped define the field nearly 30 years ago and has served as the cornerstone for most university curricula. Now students and professionals alike can use this updated classic to understand atmospheric phenomena in the context of the latest discoveries, and prepare themselves for more advanced study and real-life problem solving.
This latest edition of Atmospheric Science, has been revamped in terms of content and appearance. It contains new chapters on atmospheric chemistry, the Earth system, the atmospheric boundary layer, and climate, as well as enhanced treatment of atmospheric dynamics, radiative transfer, severe storms, and global warming. The authors illustrate concepts with full-color, state-of-the-art imagery and cover a vast amount of new information in the field. Extensive numerical and qualitative exercises help students apply basic physical principles to atmospheric problems. There are also biographical footnotes summarizing the work of key scientists, along with a student companion website that hosts climate data; answers to quantitative exercises; full solutions to selected exercises; skew-T log p chart; related links, appendices; and more. The instructor website features: instructor’s guide; solutions to quantitative exercises; electronic figures from the book; plus supplementary images for use in classroom presentations.
Meteorology students at both advanced undergraduate and graduate levels will find this book extremely useful.
- Full-color satellite imagery and cloud photographs illustrate principles throughout
- Extensive numerical and qualitative exercises emphasize the application of basic physical principles to problems in the atmospheric sciences
- Biographical footnotes summarize the lives and work of scientists mentioned in the text, and provide students with a sense of the long history of meteorology
- Companion website encourages more advanced exploration of text topics: supplementary information, images, and bonus exercises
Meteorology students (advanced undergraduate and graduate levels)
- Cover Image
- Content
- Title
- Copyright
- In Memory of Peter V. Hobbs (1936–2005)
- Preface to the Second Edition
- Preface to the First Edition
- 1. Introduction and Overview
- 1.1 Scope of the Subject and Recent Highlights
- 1.2 Some Definitions and Terms of Reference
- 1.3 A Brief Survey of the Atmosphere
- 1.4 What's Next?
- 2. The Earth System
- 2.1 Components of the Earth System
- 2.2 The Hydrologic Cycle
- 2.3 The Carbon Cycle
- 2.4 Oxygen in the Earth System
- 2.5 A Brief History of Climate and the Earth System
- 2.6 Earth: The Habitable Planet
- 3. Atmospheric Thermodynamics
- 3.1 Gas Laws
- 3.2 The Hydrostatic Equation
- 3.3 The First Law of Thermodynamics15
- 3.4 Adiabatic Processes
- 3.5 Water Vapor in Air
- 3.6 Static Stability
- 3.7 The Second Law of Thermodynamics and Entropy
- 4. Radiative Transfer
- 4.1 The Spectrum of Radiation
- 4.2 Quantitative Description of Radiation
- 4.3 Blackbody Radiation
- 4.4 Physics of Scattering and Absorption and Emission
- 4.5 Radiative Transfer in Planetary Atmospheres
- 4.6 Radiation Balance at the Top of the Atmosphere
- Exercises
- 5. Atmospheric Chemistry
- 5.1 Composition of Tropospheric Air
- 5.2 Sources, Transport, and Sinks of Trace Gases
- 5.3 Some Important Tropospheric Trace Gases
- 5.4 Tropospheric Aerosols
- 5.5 Air Pollution
- 5.6 Tropospheric Chemical Cycles
- 5.7 Stratospheric Chemistry
- 6. Cloud Microphysics
- 6.1 Nucleation of Water Vapor Condensation
- 6.2 Microstructures of Warm Clouds
- 6.3 Cloud Liquid Water Content and Entrainment
- 6.4 Growth of Cloud Droplets in Warm Clouds
- 6.5 Microphysics of Cold Clouds
- 6.6 Artificial Modification of Clouds and Precipitation
- 6.7 Thunderstorm Electrification
- 6.8 Cloud and Precipitation Chemistry48
- 7. Atmospheric Dynamics
- 7.1 Kinematics of the Large-Scale Horizontal Flow
- 7.2 Dynamics of Horizontal Flow
- 7.3 Primitive Equations
- 7.4 The Atmospheric General Circulation
- 7.5 Numerical Weather Prediction
- Exercises
- 8. Weather Systems
- 8.1 Extratropical Cyclones
- 8.2 Orographic Effects
- 8.3 Deep Convection
- 8.4 Tropical Cyclones
- 9. The Atmospheric Boundary Layer
- 9.1 Turbulence
- 9.2 The Surface Energy Balance
- 9.3 Vertical Structure
- 9.4 Evolution
- 9.5 Special Effects
- 9.6 The Boundary Layer in Context
- Exercises
- 10. Climate Dynamics
- 10.1 The Present-Day Climate
- 10.2 Climate Variability
- 10.3 Climate Equilibria, Sensitivity, and Feedbacks
- 10.4 Greenhouse Warming22
- 10.5 Climate Monitoring and Prediction
- Exercises
- Constants and Conversions for Atmospheric Science
- Universal Constants
- Air
- Water Substance
- Earth and Sun
- Units and Conversions
- Abbreviations Used in Captions
- Index
- International Geophysics Series
- Edition: 2
- Published: February 1, 2006
- Imprint: Academic Press
- No. of pages: 504
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN: 9780127329512
- eBook ISBN: 9780080499536
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John M. Wallace
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.
Affiliations and expertise
University of Washington, Seattle, U.S.A.PH
Peter V. Hobbs
PETER V. HOBBS was born in London in 1936. He received his doctorate from Imperial College, University of London, where he worked in the research group headed by Sir B. John Mason. He joined the Department of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Washington in 1963, and served as a faculty member there until his death in 2005. In his role as founder and director of the the Cloud and Aerosol Research Group(CARG) in the department, he acquired and maintained a series of instrumented research aircraft with which he and his staff and students made field measurements of clouds, frontal systems and effluents from fires, volcanoes and industrial sources in many different parts of the world. He was a prolific writer and a devoted instructor and mentor of students. In recognition of his research and teaching contributions he was named an Honorary Member of the American Meteorological Society.
Affiliations and expertise
University of Washington, Seattle, U.S.A.Read Atmospheric Science on ScienceDirect