Atmospheric physics

Volume 1 of a two volume set, this book is a self-contained, state-of-the-art analysis of remote sensing, ground-based, and spatial techniques used for characterizing biomass burning events and pollution.

Atmospheric ice particles play crucial roles in cloud and storm dynamics, atmospheric chemistry, climatological processes, and other atmospheric processes.

The climate of the Earth is always changing.

This book is based on a graduate course on relativity given by Sidney Coleman at Harvard during the 1960s.

Climate change, a familiar term today, is far more than just global warming due to atmospheric greenhouse gases including CO2.

A unified and comprehensive account of the fundamental equations of atmospheric and oceanic models for climate and weather forecasting.

The first comprehensive treatment of the theory for small and large amplitude internal gravity waves, with illustrative examples and exercises.

Chemistry and Physics of Stratospheric Ozone will provide an in-depth account of chemical and physical properties of stratospheric ozone, which will be valuable to a wide audience.

The innovation in space technologies has generated a new method for observing and monitoring tsunamis from space.

The sixth edition of a bestseller, Air Quality provides students with a comprehensive overview of air quality, the science that continues to provide a better understanding of atmospheric chemistry and its effects on public health and the environment, and the regulatory and technological management practices employed in achieving air quality goals.

This updated introductory textbook, with added learning features, explains how the Sun influences the Earth and its near-space environment.

Develops a fresh mathematical approach to coronal seismology, explaining oscillatory phenomena by drawing upon original research and complex modelling techniques.

This book outlines the computational fluid dynamics evolution and gives an overview of the methods available to the engineer.

Quaternary studies provide the essential context for evaluation of what is happening with the earth's climate today, and to clarify our vulnerability to hazardous natural processes.

An Open Access overview of physical processes that generate instability in geophysical flows, emphasising numerical methods and simple rules to predict instability.

This volume contains the ten most cited articles that have appeared in the journal Atmosphere-Ocean since 1995.

This book gives a coherent development of the current understanding of the fluid dynamics of the middle latitude atmosphere.

The sun radiates a tremendous amount of energy, called solar energy or solar radiation, which is the main natural source of energy on the Earth, by far.

Adapting to Climate Change in Europe: Exploring Sustainable Pathways - From Local Measures to Wider Policies is a scientific synthesis of a four-year project on adaptation activities in Europe.

Unified treatment of physical principles of planetary climates for advanced students and researchers in atmospheric science, Earth and planetary science.

This book is a unified presentation of waves and flows occurring in the atmosphere, oceans, rivers, volcanoes and the mantle, for graduate students and researchers.

This established textbook offers a one-stop, comprehensive coverage of air pollution, all in an easy-reading and accessible style.

Provides a comprehensive review and usable problem-solving techniques for aerospace engineering plasma applications.

A practical guide to understanding, using and producing downscaled climate data, for researchers, graduate students, policy makers and practitioners.

This book presents fundamentals, equations, and methods of solutions of relativistic kinetic theory, with applications in astrophysics and cosmology.

Presents the fundamentals of gas dynamics for graduate students and researchers in the subject.

The only solutions manual providing students with comprehensive cross-referenced solutions to Bernard Schutz''s A First Course in General Relativity.

Much-needed, fresh approach that brings a greater insight into the physical understanding of aerodynamics Based on the author s decades of industrial experience with Boeing, this book helps students and practicing engineers to gain a greater physical understanding of aerodynamics.

The Gap Between Weather and Climate Forecasting: Sub-seasonal to Seasonal Prediction is an ideal reference for researchers and practitioners across the range of disciplines involved in the science, modeling, forecasting and application of this new frontier in sub-seasonal to seasonal (S2S) prediction.

Aerodynamic design of aircraft presented with applications, using CFD software and featuring tutorials, exercises, and mini-projects.

Building from principles to cutting-edge research, this introduction to rigid body dynamics includes over 100 problems with solutions.

This book provides a fundamental understanding of clouds, from microphysics to climate, with supplementary problem sets and questions.

An intuitive introduction to basic Fourier theory, with numerous practical applications from the geosciences and worked examples in R.

Discusses the use of manipulators on satellites and the dynamics of satellites carrying robotic manipulators and of planetary rovers.

The first volume of this comprehensive global perspective on Integrated Drought Management is focused on understanding drought, causes, and the assessment of drought impacts.

This textbook combines rigorous mathematical analysis with combustion science to address standard problems in reactive fluid mechanics.

Originally published in 1983, The Earth Sciences: An Annotated Bibliography is a compact and thematically organized guide that provides comprehensive access to themes and areas of study in the earth sciences.

This volume outlines the fundamentals and applications of light scattering, absorption and polarization processes involving ice crystals.

Describes the physical, plasma and chemical processes controlling ionospheres, upper atmospheres and exospheres, for researchers and graduates.

The Atmosphere and Ocean The Atmosphere and Ocean is a fully revised and updated student friendly physical introduction to the atmosphere and ocean.

This standard work has new chapters devoted to unsteady RANS and to how LES and RANS strategies are effectively combined.

This book provides a comprehensive understanding of the nucleation, motion, and interaction between crystalline defects called dislocations.

Analysis of the physics and phenomena of the ionosphere for graduates, ionospheric physicists and radio engineers.

This textbook introduces research on dinosaurs by describing the science behind how we know what we know about dinosaurs.

Textbook for students and researchers in oceanography and Earth science on theory and practice of time series analysis using MATLAB.

The book starts with an overview of Climate Science.

Complete coverage of air pollution from its sources to its health and environmental impacts, for advanced students and researchers.

Authoritative, highly readable history of aerodynamics and the major theorists and their contributions.

The GOES-R Series: A New Generation of Geostationary Environmental Satellites introduces the reader to the most significant advance in weather technology in a generation.

Elegant, novel explanation of climate change, emphasizing physical understanding and concepts, while avoiding complex mathematics, supported by excellent color illustrations.