Fluid Dynamics of the Mid-Latitude Atmosphere
Fluid Dynamics of the Mid-Latitude Atmosphere
- ISBN 13:
9780470833698
- ISBN 10:
0470833696
- Edition: 1st
- Format: Hardcover
- Copyright: 11/17/2014
- Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary
Clearly structured throughout, the first of three themes deals with the development of the basic equations for an atmosphere on a rotating, spherical planet and discusses scale analyses of these equations. The second theme explores the importance of rotation and introduces vorticity and potential vorticity, as well as turbulence. In the third theme, the concepts developed in the first two themes are used to give an understanding of balanced motion in real atmospheric phenomena. It starts with quasi-geostrophic theory and moves on to linear and nonlinear theories for mid-latitude weather systems and their fronts. The potential vorticity perspective on weather systems is highlighted with a discussion of the Rossby wave propagation and potential vorticity mixing covered in the final chapter.