Fundamentals of atmospheric modeling
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Fundamentals of atmospheric modeling
Cambridge University Press, 1999
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- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 613-634) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This comprehensive text describes the atmospheric processes, numerical methods, and computational techniques required for a scientist to successfully study air pollution and meteorology. Computer modeling has become a powerful tool in modern atmospheric sciences, combining the disciplines of meteorology, physics, mathematics, chemistry, computer sciences, and, to a lesser extent, geology, biology, microbiology, and oceanographic sciences. This text presents fundamental equations that have been developed for physical, chemical, and dynamical variables in the atmosphere, and it provides numerical methods to solve these equations. Along with classic methods of simulating dynamical meteorology, the text contains several numerical techniques for simulating gas and aerosol processes not available in any other text. The book has been developed from the author's graduate courses at Stanford University and contains homework and computer programming assignments. It is a valuable textbook for graduate and upper-level undergraduate courses in atmospheric sciences and meteorology departments. It will also be useful for courses in earth sciences, environmental sciences, and applied mathematics.
Table of Contents
- Preface
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Atmospheric structure, composition, and thermodynamics
- 3. The continuity and thermodynamic energy equations
- 4. The momentum equation in cartesian and spherical coordinates
- 5. Vertical coordinate conversions
- 6. Numerical solutions to partial differential equations
- 7. Finite differencing the equations of atmospheric dynamics
- 8. Boundary layer processes
- 9. Cloud thermodynamics
- 10. Radiative energy transfer
- 11. Gas-phase species, chemical reactions, and reaction rates
- 12. Urban, free tropospheric and stratospheric chemistry
- 13. Methods of solving chemical ordinary differential equations
- 14. Particle components, size distributions, and size structures
- 15. Aerosol emissions and nucleation
- 16. Coagulation
- 17. Condensation, evaporation, deposition, and sublimation
- 18. Chemical equilibrium and dissolution processes
- 19. Aqueous chemistry
- sedimentation and dry deposition
- 21. Model design, application, and testing
- Appendix A. Conversions
- Constants
- Lists of symbols
- Appendix B. Tables
- References
- Index.
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