Principles of Planetary Climate
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Principles of Planetary Climate

  1. 679 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Principles of Planetary Climate

About this book

This book introduces the reader to all the basic physical building blocks of climate needed to understand the present and past climate of Earth, the climates of Solar System planets, and the climates of extrasolar planets. These building blocks include thermodynamics, infrared radiative transfer, scattering, surface heat transfer and various processes governing the evolution of atmospheric composition. Nearly four hundred problems are supplied to help consolidate the reader's understanding, and to lead the reader towards original research on planetary climate. This textbook is invaluable for advanced undergraduate or beginning graduate students in atmospheric science, Earth and planetary science, astrobiology, and physics. It also provides a superb reference text for researchers in these subjects, and is very suitable for academic researchers trained in physics or chemistry who wish to rapidly gain enough background to participate in the excitement of the new research opportunities opening in planetary climate.

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Information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2010
Print ISBN
9780521865562
eBook ISBN
9780511985164
Topic
Physical Sciences
Subtopic
Meteorology & Climatology

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Preface
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. Notation
  10. CHAPTER ONE: The Big Questions
  11. CHAPTER TWO: Thermodynamics in a nutshell
  12. CHAPTER THREE: Elementary models of radiation balance
  13. CHAPTER FOUR: Radiative transfer in temperature-stratified atmospheres
  14. CHAPTER FIVE: Scattering
  15. CHAPTER SIX: The surface energy balance
  16. CHAPTER SEVEN: Variation of temperature with season and latitude
  17. CHAPTER EIGHT: Evolution of the atmosphere
  18. CHAPTER NINE: A peek at dynamics
  19. Index

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