Mesoscale Dynamics
Cambridge University Press, 12/13/2007
EAN 9780521808750, ISBN10: 0521808758
Hardcover, 646 pages, 24.6 x 17.5 x 3.6 cm
Language: English
Mesoscale weather systems are responsible for numerous natural disasters, such as damaging winds, blizzards and flash flooding. A fundamental understanding of the underlying dynamics involved in these weather systems is essential in forecasting their occurrence. This 2007 book provides a systematic approach to this subject. The opening chapters introduce the basic equations governing mesoscale weather systems and their approximations. The subsequent chapters cover four major areas of mesoscale dynamics: wave dynamics, moist convection, front dynamics and mesoscale modelling. This is an ideal book on the subject for researchers in meteorology and atmospheric science. With over 100 problems, and password-protected solutions available to instructors at www.cambridge.org/9780521808750, this book could also serve as a textbook for graduate students. Modelling projects, providing hands-on practice for building simple models of stratified fluid flow from a one-dimensional advection equation, are also described.
Preface
1. Overview
2. Governing equations for mesoscale motions
3. Basic wave dynamics
4. Mesoscale wave generation and maintenance
5. Orographically forced flows
6. Thermally forced flows
7. Mesoscale instabilities
8. Isolated convective storms
9. Mesoscale convective systems
10. Dynamics of fronts and jet streaks
11. Dynamics of orographic precipitation
12. Basic numerical methods
13. Numerical modeling of geophysical fluid systems
14. Parameterization of physical processes
Appendices
Index.
'… a readable, beautifully presented and well-balanced text that should find a place on the bookshelves of many university libraries.' Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society
'…a good addition to the libraries of graduate students interested in the mesoscale.' EOS