Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Introductory remarks
- 2 Simple energy balance climate models
- 3 Effect of transport on composition
- 4 ‘Statics’ of a rotating system
- 5 Observed atmospheric structures
- 6 Equations of motion
- 7 Symmetric circulation models
- 8 Internal gravity waves, 1
- 9 Atmospheric tides
- 10 Internal gravity waves, 2 (Basic states with shear)
- 11 Rossby waves and the Gulf Stream
- 12 Vorticity and quasi-geostrophy
- 13 The generation of eddies by instability, 1
- 14 Instability 2: Energetics and climate implications
- Postscript
- Appendix Gravity wave program
- References
3 - Effect of transport on composition
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 November 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Introductory remarks
- 2 Simple energy balance climate models
- 3 Effect of transport on composition
- 4 ‘Statics’ of a rotating system
- 5 Observed atmospheric structures
- 6 Equations of motion
- 7 Symmetric circulation models
- 8 Internal gravity waves, 1
- 9 Atmospheric tides
- 10 Internal gravity waves, 2 (Basic states with shear)
- 11 Rossby waves and the Gulf Stream
- 12 Vorticity and quasi-geostrophy
- 13 The generation of eddies by instability, 1
- 14 Instability 2: Energetics and climate implications
- Postscript
- Appendix Gravity wave program
- References
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- Dynamics in Atmospheric Physics , pp. 16 - 26Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1990