The new edition of this book continues to provide a detailed treatment of various aspects of atmospheric phenomena and their underlying physical principles. It offers a study of both physical and dynamical aspects of the atmosphere. After discussing the fundamental processes such as origin of the atmosphere, atmospheric thermodynamics, atmospheric radiation and cloud and precipitation formation, the book focuses on equipping students with a thorough understanding of weather and climate.
New in this edition: - A new chapter on 'Climate system' dealing with important differences between local, regional and global climates and provides detailed description of all the five components of the climate system.
- Important issues of global warming and climate change together with detailed exposition of its causes and effects.
- Additional material is included in Chapter 8 that deals with Atmospheric Boundary layer (ABL) structure and its formation, as well as Monin-Obukhov similarity theory.
- Additional material is included in Chapter 3 that deals with derivation of Saturated Adiabatic Lapse Rate.
- Chapter 10 ?Large Scale Meteorological systems in the Mid-Latitudes? includes quasi-geostrophic approximation and the associated quasi-geostrophic equations.
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A. Chandrasekar, Ph.D., is Outstanding Professor, and Dean (Academics%Continuing Education), Department of Earth and Space Sciences, Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology Thiruvananthapuram. Earlier, he has been Professor of Physics and Meteorology and Head of Centre of Oceans, Rivers, Atmosphere and Land Sciences at Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, where he served for 21 years. Professor Chandrasekar has taught a variety of undergraduate and postgraduate courses during his long teaching and research career of nearly 22 years. He has to his credit about 40 peer reviewed journal publications. He is also a member of the Editorial Boards of the The Open Atmospheric Science Journal and Disaster Advances Journal, besides being a member of National Academy of Sciences, India and a life member of the Indian Meteorological Society and Indian Society for Theoretical and Applied Mechanics. His fields of specialization are atmospheric modelling, mesoscale modelling and data assimilation.
- Foreword
- Preface
- Introductory Survey of the Atmosphere
- Atmospheric Observations
- Atmospheric Thermodynamics
- Radiation
- Clouds and Precipitation
- Governing Laws of Atmospheric Motion
- Atmospheric Motion
- Atmospheric Boundary Layer
- Waves in the Atmosphere
- Large-scale Meteorological Systems in Mid-Latitudes
- Meteorological Systems in Low Latitudes
- Global Energy Balance
- General Circulation
- Numerical Modelling of the Atmosphere
- Chaos in the Atmosphere
- Climate Systems
- Appendix
- Bibliography
- Index
