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050 00 $aQC880.4.A8$bR35 2015
082 00 $a551.51/7$223
100 1 $aRandall, David A.$q(David Allan),$d1948-
245 13 $aAn introduction to the global circulation of the atmosphere /$cDavid Randall.
264 1 $aPrinceton :$bPrinceton University Press,$c[2015]
264 4 $c℗♭2015
300 $aix, 442 pages :$billustrations, maps ;$c26 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 399-436) and index.
505 0 $aPerpetual motion -- What makes it go -- What goes on -- The rules of the game -- Go with the flow -- Up moist, down dry -- Heat where it's hot, and cool where it's cold -- A taxonomy of eddies -- What the eddies do -- A fluid dynamical commotion -- The future of the circulation -- Vectors, vector calculus, and coordinate systems -- Dimensional analysis, scale analysis, and similarity theories -- Why is the dissipation rate positive? -- Vertical coordinate transformations -- The moist adiabatic lapse rate -- Eddy kinetic energy and zonal kinetic energy -- Spherical harmonics -- Hermite polynomials.
650 0 $aAtmospheric circulation$xStudy and teaching.
650 0 $aMeteorology$xStudy and teaching.
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980 $a99977204271