Atmospheric Processes and SystemsPsychology Press, 1998 - 194 páginas Atmospheric Processes and Systems presents a concise introduction to the atmosphere and the fundamentals of weather. Examining different aspects of the mass, energy and circulation systems in the atmosphere, this text provides detailed accounts of specific phenomena, including |
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The acid rain problem | 8 |
Chapter | 13 |
The enhanced greenhouse effect | 26 |
Chapter 4 | 30 |
Radiation balance and energy balance modifications due to urbanisation | 36 |
Energy transfers within the troposphere and their influence | 40 |
Temperature inversions and their role in air pollution episodes | 48 |
Atmospheric Water | 53 |
Chapter 6 | 109 |
Upper troposphere pressure and wind systems | 110 |
weather systems | 121 |
Synoptic Situations | 127 |
The role of air masses in the secondary atmospheric circulation of Europe North America and Australia | 137 |
Weather disturbances | 142 |
The role of Rossby waves and PFJ flow on surface highs and lows | 144 |
The characteristics and dynamics of warm and cold fronts | 151 |
Suppression of vapour flux by deliberate human activities | 63 |
The condensation process and condensation forms at or close | 66 |
Fog dispersal and frost protection by human activities | 72 |
Cloud seeding and precipitation modification | 81 |
Global Pressure | 85 |
The intertropical convergence zone | 94 |
Models of the globalgeneral circulation | 108 |
The influence of El Niño and the Southern Oscillation on tropical | 153 |
weather disturbances | 161 |
Tertiary circulationslocal airflows | 164 |
Classic sea breeze fronts in southern Britain | 170 |
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adiabatic advection air mass air parcels airflow airstreams aloft anticyclogenesis anticyclones areas associated atmospheric environment cent characteristics circulation cloud cold air cold front condensation convection convergence cooling Coriolis force cumulonimbus cumulus cyclogenesis DALR decrease dew point discussed divergence droplets dynamic Earth's surface easterly energy balance Equator equatorial evaporation evapotranspiration example Figure frontal Furthermore geostrophic global greenhouse effect Hadley cell high-pressure humid hydrometeors ice crystals increase isobars ITCZ jet stream kinetic energy lapse rate latent heat latitudes layer mid-latitude molecules Northern Hemisphere ocean ozone Pacific Polar Front polewards precipitation rainfall represents rising air Rossby waves rotation SALR saturation Schematic representation solar radiation stable subtropical temperature inversion thermal trade winds tropical cyclones tropopause troposphere trough unstable upper upper-air vapour flux vapour pressure velocity vertical warm air warm front water vapour wave depressions weather disturbances westerlies winter zone
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Introduction to Environmental Physics: Planet Earth, Life and Climate Peter Hughes,N.J. Mason No hay ninguna vista previa disponible - 2001 |