Call number:
AWI A5-94-0198
Description / Table of Contents:
CONTENTS: 1. Introduction. - 2. Some Elementary Considerations. - 3. Basic Aspects of Atmospheric Energy. - 4. Available Potential Energy. - 4.1 The Quasi-Geostrophic Case. - 4.2 An Elementary Derivation. - 5. Baroclinic and Barotropic Flow. - 6. Transports of Sensible Heat and Momentum. - 7. Zonal and Eddy Energies. - 8. Divergent and Nondivergent Flow. - 9. Wavenumber representations. - 10. Interaction Among Waves. - 11. Energetics and Predictability. - 11.1 Nondivergent, Horizontal Flow. - 11.2 The Quasi-geostrophic Case. - 12. Energetics of An Open Domain. - 12.1 Eulerian Energy Budget Analysis. - 12.2 Quasi-Lagrangian Energy Budget Analysis. - 12.3 The Kinetic Energy Budget of Baroclinic and Barotropic Flow in an Open Domain. - 12.4 The Kinetic Energy Budget Of Rotational and Divergent Flow in an Open Domain. - 13. Energetics of Some Special Phenomena. - 13.1 Subtropical Jet Streams. - 13.1.1 Regional Ageostrophic Circulation Mechanism. - 13 .1.2 Hemispheric Interaction Mechanism. - 13 .1.3 Relation Between the Two Mechanisms. - 13.2 Spectral Energetics of Blocking. - 13.2.1 Spectral Energetics Analyses of Some Blocking Events. - 13.3 Energetics of Stationary Eddies. - 13.3.1 Energetics Scheme. - 13.3 .2 The Three-Dimensional Structure of Stationary Eddies. - 13.3 .3 Energetics of Stationary Eddies. - 14. Quasi-Periodic Variation of Atmospheric Energetics. - 14.1 Annual Variation in the Northern Hemisphere. - 14.1.1 Annual Variation of the Lorenz Energy Cycle. - 14.1.2 Fourier Analysis of Energy Variables. - 14.2 Annual Variation of the Kinetic Energy Budget over North America. - 14.3 Vacillation of Atmospheric Energetics. - 14.3.1 Vacillation of Eddy Energy. - 14.3.2 Energy Vacillation of Long- and Short-Wave Regimes. - 15. Energetics of the Tropics: Planetary Scale. - 15.1 Overview of Tropical Planetary-scale Circulation. - 15.2 Conventional Spectral Energetics. - 15.3 Low-Frequency Variation of Tropical Energetics. - 15.4 Spectral Energetics of Baroclinic and Barotropic Flows. - 15.5 Spectral Energetics of Tropical Divergent and Rotational Flows. - 15.6 Spectral Analysis of the Tropical Enstrophy. - 15.7 Kinetic Energy Budget of the Tropical Easterly Jet. - 15.8 Exchange of Kinetic Energy between Low and Middle Latitudes. - 16. Energetics of the Tropics: Synoptic Scale. - 16.1 Equatorial Waves over the Western Pacific. - 16.2 African Waves. - 16.3 Monsoon Depression. - 17. Energetics of the Southem Hemisphere. - 17.1 Camparisan of the Annual Variations in the Atmospheric Energetics between the Southern and Northern Hemispheres. - 17.1.1 Sensible Heat and Momentum Transport. - 17.1.2 Annual Variation of Energetics. - 17.2 Spectral Energetics. - 17.3 Vacillation of the Southern Hemisphere Atmospheric Energetics. - 17.4 Jet Streams. - 17.4.1 Summer Australian Jet. - 17.4.2 Winter Jets. - Problems. - Exercises. - Answers. - Bibliography. - Author Index. - Subject Index.
Type of Medium:
Monograph available for loan
Pages:
VIII, 376 S. : Ill., graph. Darst., Kt.
ISBN:
0195071271
Branch Library:
AWI Library
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