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  title info:
    title: Atmosphere, weather, and climate
  name:
    name part: Barry, Roger G. (Roger Graham)
    name part: 1935-
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Chorley, Richard J.
  name:
    name part: Taylor & Francis
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2010
    edition: 9th ed.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource.
  table of contents: 1. Introduction and history of meteorology and climatology -- The atmosphere -- Solar energy -- Global circulation -- Climatology -- Mid-latitude disturbances -- The polar regions -- Tropical weather -- Paleoclimates -- The global climate system -- 2. Atomospheric composition, mass and structure -- Composition of the atmosphere -- Mass of the atmosphere -- The layering of the atmosphere -- 3. Solar radiation and the global energy budget -- Solar radiation -- Surface receipt of solar radiation and its effects -- Terrestrial infared radiation and the greenhouse effect -- Heat budget of the earth -- Atmospheric energy and horizontal heat transport -- 4. Atmospheric moisture budget -- The global hydrological cycle -- Humidity -- Evaporation -- Condensation -- Precipitation characteristics and measurement -- 5. Atmospheric instability, cloud formation and precipitation processes -- Adiabetic temperature changes -- Condensation level -- Air stability and instability -- Cloud formation -- Formation of precipitation -- Precipitation types -- Thunderstorms -- 6. Atmospheric motion : principles -- Laws of horizontal motion -- Divergence, vertical motion and vorticity -- Local winds -- 7. Planetary-scale motions in the atmosphere and ocean -- Variation of pressure and wind velocity with height -- The global wind belts -- The general circulation -- Ocean structure and circulation -- 8. Numerical models of the general circulation, climate and weather prediction -- Fundamentals of the GCM -- Model simulations -- Data sources for forecasting -- Numerical weather prediction -- 9. Mid-latitude synoptic and mesoscale systems -- The air-mass concept -- Nature of the source area -- Air-mass modification -- Frontogenesis -- Frontal characteristics -- Zones of wave development and frontogenesis -- Surface-upper-air relationships and the formation of frontal cyclones -- Non-frontal depressions -- Mesoscale convective systems -- 10. Weather and climate in middle and high latitudes -- Europ…
  note: Roger G. Barry and Richard J. Chorley.
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Meteorology
  subject:
    topic: Atmospheric physics
  subject:
    topic: Climatology
  classification: QC861.3 .B37 2010
  classification: 551.5
  classification: RB 10423
  classification: 38.80
  related item:
    identifier: (DLC) 2009009579
  identifier: 9780203871027 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 0203871022 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 9780415465694
  identifier: 0415465699
  identifier: 9780415465700
  identifier: 0415465702
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  record info:
    record content source: NhCcYBP
    record creation date: 180608
    record change date: 20250816190722.0
    record identifier: in00004001018