Fundamentals of atmospheric modeling
"This well-received and comprehensive textbook on atmospheric processes and numerical methods has been thoroughly revised and updated. The new edition includes a wide range of new numerical techniques for solving problems in areas such as cloud microphysics, ocean-atmosphere exchange processes, and atmospheric radiative properties. It also contains improved descriptions of atmospheric physics, dynamics, radiation, and aerosol and cloud processes. Numerous examples and problems are included, with online answers available to lecturers." "Fundamentals of Atmospheric Modeling is essential reading for researchers and advanced students of atmospheric science, meteorology, and environmental science."--BOOK JACKET
xiv, 813 pages : illustrations
9780521839709, 9780521548656, 052183970X, 0521548659
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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 and surface processes
9. Radiative energy transfer
10. Gas-phase species, chemical reactions, and reaction rates
11. Urban, free-tropospheric, and stratospheric chemistry
12. Methods of solving chemical ordinary differential equations
13. Particle components, size distributions, and size structures
14. Aerosol emission and nucleation
15. Coagulation
16. Condensation, evaporation, deposition, and sublimation
17. Chemical equilibrium and dissolution processes
18. Cloud thermodynamics and dynamics
19. Irreversible aqueous chemistry
20. Sedimentation, dry deposition, and air-sea exchange
21. Model design, application, and testing