Fundamentals of Atmospheric Modeling
Fundamentals of Atmospheric Modeling
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This is a new edition of the successful and comprehensive textbook on the atmospheric processes, numerical methods, and computational techniques required for advanced students and scientists to successfully study air pollution and meteorology.
- Details the most advanced modeling techniques available
- Contains numerous examples and problems with answers available to lecturers through the web
- Includes step-by-step procedures for developing an atmospheric dynamics model, a chemical solver and other modeling tools
Reviews & endorsements
"I highly recommend the Jacobson book for graduate students and professionals engaged in atmospheric modeling. They will find themselves frequently reaching for it as a reference. I certainly do." Atmospheric Environment
"...recommended as a text for a rigorous course of study in air pollution meteorology and modeling." Applied Mechanics Reviews
Product details
June 2005Paperback
9780521548656
828 pages
250 × 167 × 44 mm
1.28kg
175 b/w illus. 60 tables
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Table of Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 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
- Appendix A. Conversions and constants
- Appendix B. Tables
- References
- Index.
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