Thermodynamics of the Atmosphere
Basic Physics and Applications to Earth's Science
Stefano Spezia (Edited by)
9781774698730
Hardback, published 31 March 2024
642 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 2 cm, 0.531 kg
The atmosphere behaves like a giant thermal engine in which disorganized energy is transformed into organized kinetic energy by the uneven absorption of solar radiation. The last one drives the circulation of the atmosphere by temperature differences between the polar and equatorial regions. Thermodynamics of the Atmosphere: Basic Physics and Applications to Earth's Science book provides the physical basis for understanding the climate system: ideal gases, thermodynamics laws, the effects of gravity, the water in the atmosphere, cloud drops, mixtures, and thermal radiation.
Section 1 Basic Physics: Ideal Gases and Thermodynamics LawsChapter 1 On Classical Ideal Gases
Chapter 2 A New Entropy Function to Analyze Isentropic Processes of Ideal Gases with Variable Specific Heats
Chapter 3 Understanding Atmospheric Behaviour in Terms of Entropy: A Review of Applications of the Second Law of Thermodynamics to Meteorology
Chapter 4 Mechanics and Thermodynamics of a New Minimal Model of the Atmosphere
Section 2 Effects of Gravity
Chapter 5 The Effects of Gravity on the Climate and Circulation of a Terrestrial Planet
Chapter 6 Gravity is Vertical in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics
Chapter 7 Convective Cells of Internal Gravity Waves in the Earth'
s Atmosphere with Finite Temperature Gradient
Section 3 The Water and the Vertical Structure of Moisture in the Atmosphere
Chapter 8 Water from Air: an Overlooked Source of Moisture in Arid and Semiarid Regions
Chapter 9 Observed Behaviours of Precipitable Water Vapour and Precipitation Intensity in Response to Upper Air Profiles Estimated from Surface Air Temperature
Chapter 10 Vertical Structure of Moisture Content Over Europe
Chapter 11 Impacts of Model Spatial Resolution on the Vertical Structure of Convection in the Tropics
Chapter 12 Winter Thermodynamic Vertical Structure in the Arctic Atmosphere Linked to Large-Scale Circulation
Chapter 13 Vertical Structure of the Lower Troposphere Derived from MU Radar, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, and Balloon Measurements During ShUREX 2015
Section 4 Cloud drops and Mixtures
Chapter 14 Cloud Processing of Aerosol Particles in Marine Stratocumulus Clouds
Chapter 15 Cloud Drop Number Concentrations Over the Western North Atlantic Ocean: Seasonal Cycle, Aerosol Interrelationships, and other Influential Factors
Chapter 16 Response of Mixed-Phase Cloud Microphysical Properties to Cloud-Seeding Near Cloud Top Over Hebei, China
Chapter 17 Hygroscopicity and Ice Nucleation Properties of Dust/Salt Mixtures Originating from the Source of East Asian Dust Storms
Section 5 Thermal Radiation
Chapter 18 Disquisitions Relating to Principles of Thermodynamic Equilibrium in Climate Modelling
Chapter 19 Radiation and Heat Transfer in the Atmosphere: A Comprehensive Approach on a Molecular Basis
Chapter 20 Atmospheric Ionization and Cloud Radiative Forcing
