Research Catalog

Title

Middle atmosphere dynamics / David G. Andrews, James R. Holton, and Conway B. Leovy.

Author

Andrews, David G.

Publication

Orlando : Academic Press, 1987.

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Additional Authors

• Holton, James R.
• Leovy, Conway B.

Description

xi, 489 p : ill.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

International geophysics series ; v. 40

Uniform Title

International geophysics series v. 40.

Subject

• Middle atmosphere
• Dynamic meteorology
• Fluid dynamics
• Atmospheric circulation
• Hydrodynamics

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 463-481.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• INTRODUCTION: The static structure of the middle atmosphere -- Zonal mean temperature and wind distributions -- Composition of the middle atmosphere -- The vertical distribution of eddy amplitudes -- Observational techniques -- RADIATIVE PROCESSES AND REMOTE SOUNDING: Fundamentals -- Gaseous absorption spectra -- Transmission functions -- Infrared radiative exchange and radiative damping -- Departure from local thermodynamic equilibrium -- Absorption of solar radiation -- Radiative equilibrium temperature and heating-rate distributions -- Remote sounding -- BASIC DYNAMICS: The beta-plane approximation and quasi-geostrophic theory -- The Eulerian-mean equations -- Linearized disturbances to zonal-mean flows -- The transformed Eulerian-mean equations -- The generalized Eliasse-Palm theorem and the Charney-Drazin nonacceleration theorem -- The Lagrangian approach -- Isentropic coordinates -- The zonal-mean equations in isentropic coordinates -- LINEAR WAVE THEORY: Introduction and classification of wave types -- Wave disturbances to a resting spherical atmosphere -- Atmospheric thermal tides -- Free traveling planetary waves -- Forced planetary waves -- Gravity waves -- Equatorial waves -- EXTRATROPICAL PLANETARY-SCALE CIRCULATIONS: The observed annual cycle -- Detailed linear models of stationary planetary waves in the middle atmosphere -- Detailed linear models of free traveling planetary waves in the atmosphere -- Barotropic and baroclinic instability -- Planetary-wave critical layers --
• STRATOSPHERIC SUDDEN WARMINGS: Observed features of sudden warmings -- Theoretical modeling of sudden warmings -- THE EXTRATROPICAL ZONAL-MEAN CIRCULATION: Some simple zonally averaged models of the middle atmosphere -- The upper mesosphere -- The winter polar stratosphere -- Interpretation and generalization -- EQUATORIAL CIRCULATIONS: The observed structure of the equatorial wuasi-biennial oscillation -- Theory of the quasi-biennial oscillation -- Observed structure of the equatorial semiannual oscillations -- Dynamics of the equatorial semiannual oscillations -- Inertial instability in the equatorial x one -- TRACE TRANSPORT IN THE MIDDLE ATMOSPHERE: Types of tracers -- Long-lived chemical tracers -- Transport in the meridional plane -- Formulations of eddy and mean-flow transport -- Dispersive wave transport: irreversible mixing of tracers -- Troposphere-stratosphere exchange -- Transport modeling -- THE OZONE LAYER: The climatology of ozone -- Elementary aspects of photochemical modeling -- Photochemistry of ozone: catalytic cycles -- Models of the natural and perturbed ozone layer -- GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELING: Models of the lower stratosphere -- The GFDL SKYHI model -- Forecasting of sudden stratospheric warmings -- Transport modeling -- INTERACTION BETWEEN THE MIDDLE ATMOSPHERE AND THE LOWER ATMOSPHERE: Radiative links: deductions from simple models -- Radiative links: deductions from GCMs -- Dynamical links: vertically propagating planetary waves -- Interannual variability in the stratosphere.

ISBN

0120585758 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^86032256^

OCLC

• 15083616
• SCSB-10068522

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library