Atmosphere, Weather and Climate

✍ Scribed by R. Barry, R. Chorley

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 462
• Edition: 8
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This edition is dedicated to my co-author Richard J. Chorley, with whom I first entered into collaboration on Atmosphere, Weather and Climate in 1966. He made numerous contributions, as always, to this eighth edition, notably Chapter 1 which he prepared as a new introduction. His many insights and ideas for the book and his enthusiasms over the years will be sadly missed.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 0
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Preface to the eighth edition......Page 12
Acknowledgements......Page 14
Introduction and history of meteorology and climatology......Page 18
Atmospheric composition, mass and structure......Page 26
Solar radiation and the global energy budget......Page 49
Atmospheric moisture budget......Page 81
Atmospheric instability, cloud formation and precipitation processes......Page 122
Atmospheric motion: principles......Page 153
Planetary-scale motions in the atmosphere and ocean......Page 168
Numerical models of the general circulation, climate and weather prediction......Page 203
Mid-latitude synoptic and mesoscale systems......Page 218
Weather and climate in middle and high latitudes......Page 254
Tropical weather and climate......Page 303
Boundary layer climates......Page 362
Climate change......Page 394
Climate classification......Page 432
Systme International (SI) units......Page 440
Synoptic weather maps......Page 442
Data sources......Page 445
Notes......Page 447
Bibliography......Page 450
Index......Page 453