Principles of Planetary Climate
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This book introduces the reader to all the basic physical building blocks of climate needed to understand the present and past climate of Earth, the climates of Solar System planets, and the climates of extrasolar planets. These building blocks include thermodynamics, infrared radiative transfer, scattering, surface heat transfer and various processes governing the evolution of atmospheric composition. Nearly four hundred problems are supplied to help consolidate the reader's understanding, and to lead the reader towards original research on planetary climate.…
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Key features
- Begins with a very elementary treatment requiring little mathematical sophistication, and gradually increases the demands on the student in later chapters, so that it can be used on many different courses
- Presents a unified treatment of all the aspects of physics and chemistry needed to make simple models of the present and past climates of Earth and other planets
- Provides software, datasets and algorithms needed to reproduce all calculations and results in the book, to help the student recreate all the results and independently address original questions
- Provides hundreds of creative and stimulating exercises, both for consolidating immediate comprehension and leading students to imaginative inquiries on the brink of original research
About the book
- DOI https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511780783
- Subjects Atmospheric Science,Climate,Earth and Environmental Sciences
- Format: Hardback
- Publication date: 17 January 2011
- ISBN: 9780521865562
- Dimensions (mm): 246 x 189 mm
- Weight: 1.6kg
- Contains: 143 b/w illus. 23 tables 370 exercises
- Page extent: 674 pages
- Availability: Available
- Format: Digital
- Publication date: 05 June 2012
- ISBN: 9780511780783
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