The Earth's atmosphere : its physics and dynamics

The Earth's atmosphere : its physics and dynamics / by Kshudiram Saha.

This book covers a wide area of the atmospheric science, focusing particularly on those physical and dynamical aspects of our environment which tend to create heat sources and sinks in the earth-atmosphere system and which it seeks to balance through circulation at different time and space scales. T...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Saha, Kshudiram
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; London : Springer, 2008.
Subjects:
Atmospheric physics.
Dynamic meteorology.
SCIENCE > Earth Sciences > Meteorology & Climatology.
Environnement.
Sciences de la terre.
Atmospheric physics
Dynamic meteorology
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Table of Contents:
  • The Sun and the Earth
  • The Solar System and the Earth's Gravitation; The Earth's Atmosphere
  • Its Origin, Composition and Properties; Heat and Thermodynamics of the Atmosphere; Water Vapour in the Atmosphere: Thermodynamics of Moist Air; Physics of Cloud and Precipitation; Physics of Radiation
  • Fundamental Laws; The Sun and its Radiation; The Incoming Solar Radiation
  • Interaction with the Earth's Atmosphere and Surface; Heat Balance of the Earth's Surface
  • Upward and Downward Transfer of Heat; Heat Balance of the Earth-Atmosphere System
  • Heat Sources and Sinks.

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