Author:
Randall, David A. (David Allan), 1948-
Imprint:Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press ; 2015
Descriptionix, 442 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Note:Perpetual motion -- What makes it go -- What goes on -- The rules of the game -- Go with the flow -- Up moist, down dry -- Heat where it's hot, and cool where it's cold -- A taxonomy of eddies -- What the eddies do -- A fluid dynamical commotion -- The future of the circulation -- Vectors, vector calculus, and coordinate systems -- Dimensional analysis, scale analysis, and similarity theories -- Why is the dissipation rate positive? -- Vertical coordinate transformations -- The moist adiabatic lapse rate -- Eddy kinetic energy and zonal kinetic energy -- Spherical harmonics.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-436) and index.
