Research Catalog

Title

Thermodynamics of the atmosphere : a course in theoretical meteorology / Wilford Zdunkowski and Andreas Bott.

Author

Zdunkowski, Wilford, 1929-

Publication

Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, c2004.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

Bott, Andreas, 1956-

Description

xiii, 251 p. : ill.; 26 cm.

Summary

• "This textbook is written for graduate students and researchers in meteorology and related sciences. To encourage the reader to follow in detail the mathematical developments, the derivations are complete leaving out only the most elementary steps.
• While most meteorological textbooks only present equilibrium thermodynamics, this book also introduces the linear theory of non-equilibrium and provides the necessary background for more advanced studies. It is designed to complement the authors' previous text, Dynamics of the Atmosphere (Cambridge, 2003)."--Jacket.

Subject

Atmospheric thermodynamics

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 246-247) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Basic thermodynamic concepts -- 2. Budget equations -- 3. The first law of thermodynamics -- 4. The second law of thermodynamics -- 5. Thermal radiation -- 6. Thermodynamic potentials, identities and stability -- 7. The constitutive equations for irreversible fluxes -- 8. State functions of ideal gases -- 9. State functions of the condensed pure phase -- 10. State functions for cloud air -- 11. Heat equation and special adiabatic systems -- 12. Special adiabats of homogeneous systems -- 13. Thermodynamic diagrams -- 14. Atmospheric statics.

ISBN

• 0521809533
• 0521006856 (pb.)

LCCN

^^2003055188

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library