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Price: $118.20
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Sale: $53.00
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Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Frederick K. Lutgens::Edward J. Tarbuck::Dennis Tasa
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Publisher: Prentice Hall
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Edition: 10
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Dewey Decimal Number: 551.5
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Publication Date: 2006-04-06
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Reading Level: 544
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Description: Using everyday, easy-to-grasp examples to reinforce basic concepts, this highly regarded handbook remains the standard introduction to meteorology and the atmosphere – components, problems, and applications. Includes the most up-to-date coverage of topics such as: ozone depletion; the ultraviolet index; temperature; dew point temperature and orographic effects; wildfires and weather; thunderstorms and lightning; the record-breaking Florida hurricane season; effects of air pollution, and more. Incorporates top-quality visuals, including new satellite images and illustrations by the award-winning Dennis Tasa, to demonstrate the highly visual nature of meteorology. Uses a largely non-technical writing style to help readers grasp important concepts. For those interested in learning more about meteorology.
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Price: $14.00
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Sale: $7.24
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Manufacturer: Mariner Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Gabrielle Walker
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Publisher: Mariner Books
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Edition: Reprint
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Dewey Decimal Number: 551.509
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Publication Date: 2008-08-04
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Reading Level: 288
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Description: We don’t just live in the air; we live because of it. It’s the most miraculous substance on earth, responsible for our food, our weather, our water, and our ability to hear. In this exuberant book, gifted science writer Gabrielle Walker peels back the layers of our atmosphere with the stories of the people who uncovered its secrets:
• A flamboyant Renaissance Italian discovers how heavy our air really is: The air filling Carnegie Hall, for example, weighs seventy thousand pounds.
• A one-eyed barnstorming pilot finds a set of winds that constantly blow five miles above our heads.
• An impoverished American farmer figures out why hurricanes move in a circle by carving equations with his pitchfork on a barn door.
• A well-meaning inventor nearly destroys the ozone layer.
• A reclusive mathematical genius predicts, thirty years before he’s proved right, that the sky contains a layer of floating metal fed by the glowing tails of shooting stars.
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Price: $100.05
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Sale: $19.95
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Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Frederick K. Lutgens::Edward J. Tarbuck::Dennis Tasa
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Publisher: Prentice Hall
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Edition: 9
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Dewey Decimal Number: 551
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Publication Date: 2003-06-23
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Reading Level: 528
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Description: This reader-friendly book offers current and comprehensive information about the atmosphere—its components, problems, and applications. It features everyday examples to help the reader understand weather and climate, with incredible photographs, satellite images, and line art. Broad in scope and clearly and concisely written, this book features such topics as temperature, moisture and atmospheric stability, condensation and precipitation, air pressure and winds, circulation, air masses, weather patterns, thunderstorms and tornadoes, hurricanes, air pollution, world climates, and optical phenomena. For readers interested in a book that discusses up-to-date weather and climate issues that affect the world's people everyday; can also be utilized as a reference text for those in the field of meteorology and other earth sciences.
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Price: $107.00
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Sale: $85.24
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Manufacturer: Academic Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: K. N. Liou
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Publisher: Academic Press
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Edition: 2
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Dewey Decimal Number: 551.5273
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Publication Date: 2002-05-13
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Reading Level: 583
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Description: This Second Edition of An Introduction to Atmospheric Radiation has been extensively revised to address the fundamental study and quantitative measurement of the interactions of solar and terrestrial radiation with molecules, aerosols, and cloud particles in planetary atmospheres. It contains 70% new material, much of it stemming from the investigation of the atmospheric greenhouse effects of external radiative perturbations in climate systems, and the development of methodologies for inferring atmospheric and surface parameters by means of remote sensing. Liou's comprehensive treatment of the fundamentals of atmospheric radiation was developed for students, academics, and researchers in atmospheric sciences, remote sensing, and climate modeling.
Key Features
*Balanced treatment of fundamentals and applications
*Includes over 170 illustrations to complement the concise description of each subject
*Numerous examples and hands-on exercises at the end of each chapter
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Price: $185.00
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Sale: $119.98
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Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: R. M. Goody::Y. L. Yung
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Edition: 2
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Dewey Decimal Number: 341
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Publication Date: 1995-12-07
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Reading Level: 544
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Description: A complete revision of Goody's classic 1964 work, this volume offers a systematic discussion of atmospheric radiation processes that today are at the center of worldwide study and concern. As a complete treatment of physical and mathematical foundations, the text assumes no prior knowledge of atmospheric physics. The theoretical discussion is systematic, and can therefore be applied with minor extension to any planetary atmosphere.
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Price: $40.50
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Sale: $32.50
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Manufacturer: Krieger Publishing Company
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Thomas F. Tascione
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Publisher: Krieger Publishing Company
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Edition: 2 Sub
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Dewey Decimal Number: 551.514
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Publication Date: 1994-04
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Reading Level: 151
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Description: Since the publication of the first edition of this textbook in 1988, scientific discovery in space science continued at an extraordinary rate. The purpose of the second edition is to capture these ideas and present them in a clear and concise fashion. The book is divided into ten chapters; the first eight chapters develop the physics of the space environment, and the last two chapters apply these principles to electromagnetic wave propagation and spacecraft operation. Topics include plasma physics, solar physics, solar wind processes, geomagnetism, magnetospheric physics, physics of the neutral atmosphere, ionospheric physics, ionospheric variability, radiowave propagation in the ionosphere, and space environmental effects on spacecraft. This is the only textbook on the space environment written for the novice which covers all the major topics in space physics. The reader is expected to have a solid background in introductory physics; therefore, this edition is most useful as a text for senior-year college or first-year graduate students.
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Price: $120.00
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Sale: $92.01
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Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Craig F. Bohren::Bruce A. Albrecht
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Dewey Decimal Number: 551.522
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Publication Date: 1998-02-19
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Reading Level: 416
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Description: This comprehensive text is based on the authors' course notes, refined and updated over 15 years of teaching. The core of the text focuses on water and its transformations. Four chapters lay the foundation, from energy conservation to the ideal gas law, specific heat capacities, adiabatic processes, and entropy. An extensive chapter treats phase transitions of water, and a lengthy discussion of the van der Waals equation sets the stage for phase diagrams. Free energy is applied to determining the effect of dissolved substances, total pressure, and size on vapor pressure. The chapter on moist air and clouds discusses wet-bulb and virtual temperatures, isentropic ascent of saturated air, thermodynamic diagrams, stability, and cloud formation. The final chapter covers energy, momentum, and mass transfer, topics not usually considered part of thermodynamics. Measurements are included and experiments and observations are suggested, all with the aim of breathing life into equations. The authors are careful to recognize and unafraid to criticize the treatments of thermodynamics that have been unchanged for more than a hundred years. Atmospheric Thermodynamics contains over 200 exercises, mostly applications of basic principles to concrete problems. Often inspired by inquisitive students and colleagues, the exercises cover everything from automobiles and airplanes to baseball, wind turbines, and ground hogs. The authors weave history into the text by drawing on original writings rather than using textbook anecdotes, and molecular interpretations are given wherever possible. Assumptions and approximations are carefully laid out, derivations are detailed, and equations are interpreted physically and applied. No previous knowledge of thermodynamics or kinetic theory is assumed, although students are expected to be well-grounded in calculus, differential equations, vector analysis, and classical mechanics.
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Price: $101.00
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Sale: $101.00
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Manufacturer: Academic Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Judith A. Curry::Peter J. Webster
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Publisher: Academic Press
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Edition: 1st
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Dewey Decimal Number: 551.5246
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Publication Date: 1999-02-15
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Reading Level: 471
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Description: Atmospheric and climatological studies are becoming more and more important in day-to-day living. Winds and ocean current owe their existence to the thermodynamic imbalances that arise from the differential heating of the Earth and air by the sun. Accounting for heat exchanges with the atmosphere and ocean is essential in any predictive model of the ocean and/or atmosphere. Thermodynamic feedback processes in the atmosphere and ocean are critical to understanding the overall stability of the Earth's climate and climate change. Water and its phase changes make the thermodynamics of the atmosphere and ocean uniquely interesting and challenging.
Written by leading scientists in the field, Thermodynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans incorporates all the relevant information from the varying fields of dynamics meteorology, atmospheric physics and cloud physics, into a comprehensive, self-contained guide ideal for students and researchers of atmospheric thermodynamics. At the moment, courses in atmospheric thermdynamics typically have to use one or two chapters in textbooks on dynamic meteorology, atmospheric physics or cloud physics. This book combines these topics in one text.
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Manufacturer: Dover Pubns
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: John A. Dutton
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Publisher: Dover Pubns
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Dewey Decimal Number: 551.5153
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Publication Date: 1986-09
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Reading Level: 617
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Description: Internationally acclaimed text provides integrative presentation of concepts of atmospheric dynamics: atmospheric structure, equations of motion in inertial coordinates, meteorological equations of motion, moisture processes, models of the wind, atmospheric energetics, vorticity, atmospheric wave motion, and the quasi-geostropic theory of large-scale flow. More than 400 problems. 97 illustrations. |
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Price: $89.99
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Sale: $51.17
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Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Douglas V. Hoyt::Kenneth H. Schatten
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Dewey Decimal Number: 551.6
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Publication Date: 1997-04-03
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Reading Level: 288
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Description: The luminosity of the sun governs the temperatures of the planets. Yet the solar forcing, or driving, of climate, primarily due to changes in solar radiation, has never been well documented. Recent satellite measurements have shown that solar radiation varies as a function of time and wavelength, a concept that has been hypothesized for the past two centuries and has recently become a major topic with all the attention paid to global warming. This book reviews the physics of the concept of solar forcing, from its beginnings in the early 1800's and apparent success in the 1870's, to its near demise in the 1950's and recent resurgence. Since its emphasis is on solar variations as a driver for climate change, with only a brief discussion of other mechanisms, the book will be of most interest to students in climate studies.
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