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Physics of the atmosphere /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Caballero, Rodrigo (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bristol [England] (Temple Circus, Temple Way, Bristol BS1 6HG, UK) : IOP Publishing, [2014]
Series:IOP expanding physics.
Subjects:
Atmospheric physics > Textbooks.
Geophysics.
SCIENCE / Physics / Geophysics.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Author biography
  • Introduction
  • Composition of the atmosphere
  • Observed vertical structure
  • Thermodynamics of dry air
  • Pressure, temperature and the ideal gas law
  • Hydrostatic balance
  • Atmospheric energy and the first law of thermodynamics
  • Entropy and the second law of thermodynamics
  • Static stability
  • Thermodynamics of moist air
  • Thermodynamics of moist non-condensing air
  • Condensation and evaporation
  • The moist adiabat
  • Static stability of a moist atmosphere with condensation
  • Mixing clouds and contrails
  • Cloud microphysics
  • Homogeneous nucleation
  • Heterogeneous nucleation and aerosols
  • Droplet growth by condensation
  • From cloud droplets to precipitation
  • Atmospheric radiation
  • Electromagnetic radiation
  • Interaction between radiation and matter: some generalities
  • Molecular absorption
  • Scattering
  • Absorption by cloud drops
  • Radiative transfer : generalities
  • Radiative transfer of longwave radiation
  • Absorption and emission spectra of Earth's atmosphere
  • Some scattering effects
  • The atmospheric boundary layer
  • Scale separation and Reynolds averaging
  • Closure, mixing length and flux-gradient relations
  • The Ekman layer
  • The surface layer
  • Static stability and the Monin-Obukhov similarity.