Contents: 1. Introduction and Overview 2. The Earth System 3. Atmospheric Thermodynamics 4. Radiative Transfer 5. Atmospheric Chemistry 6. Cloud Microphysics 7. Atmospheric Dynamics 8. Weather Systems 9. The Atmospheric Boundary Layer 10. Climate Dynamics

• Hardbound, ISBN: 0-12-732951-X, 504 pages
• Publication date: 2006
• Publisher: Academic Press
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Contents: 1. Introduction 2. The Basic Conservation Laws 3. Elementary Applications of the Basic Equations 4. Circulation and Vorticity 5. The Planetary Boundary Layer 6. Synoptic Scale Motions I: Quasi-geostrophic Analysis 7. Atmospheric Oscillations: Linear Perturbation Theory 8. Extratropical Synoptic Scale Motions II: Baroclinic Instability 9. Mesoscale Circulations 10. The General Circulation 11. Tropical Dynamics 12. Middle Atmosphere Dynamics 13. Numerical Prediction

• Hardbound, ISBN: 0-12-354015-1, 535 pages,
• Publication date: 2004
• Publisher: Elsevier
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Contents: 1. Historical overview 2. The continuous equations 3. Discretization of the equations 4. Introduction to the parameterizations of subgrid-scale physical processes 5. Data assimilation 6. Atmospheric predictability and ensemble forecasting.

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• Publication date: 2002
• Publisher: Cambridge
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Review by Peter Lynch, for Met Éireann Staff Magazine Splanc.