An Introduction to Atmospheric Gravity Waves ANNOTATION
Audience: Graduate and advanced undergraduate students, as well as scientists and engineers in government agencies and research laboratories specializing in geophysical fluid dynamics, ocean and atmospheric physics, climate research, air pollution, turbulence, and atmospheric chemistry. (NOAA, NASA, NSF, EPA, etc.).
FROM THE PUBLISHER
Gravity waves exist in all types of geophysical fluids, such as lakes, oceans, and atmospheres. They play an important role in redistributing energy at disturbances, such as mountains or seamounts and they are routinely studied in meteorology and oceanography, particularly simulation models, atmospheric weather models, turbulence, air pollution, and climate research.
An Introduction to Atmospheric Gravity Waves provides readers with a working background of the fundamental physics and mathematics of gravity waves, and introduces a wide variety of applications and numerous recent advances.
Nappo provides a concise volume on gravity waves with a lucid discussion of current observational techniques and instrumentation.
An accompanying CD-ROM contains real data, computer codes for data analysis, and linear gravity wave models to further enhance the reader's understanding of the book's material. Foreword is written by Prof. George Chimonas, a renowned expert on the interactions of gravity waves with turbulence.
CD containing real data, computer codes for data analysis and linear gravity wave models included with the text
FROM THE CRITICS
Booknews
This book/CD-ROM package guides readers through the basics of linear wave theory and the many applications of this theory in atmospheric dynamics. Written for students in atmospheric dynamics, atmospheric physics, planetary boundary layer studies, and numerical modeling the book covers terrain-generated gravity waves, ducted gravity waves, gravity wave energetics, waves and turbulence, the parametrization of wave stress, observational techniques, and data analysis and numerical methods. The CD-ROM contains FORTRAN-77 programs for calculating terrain-generated gravity waves and ducted wave modes. The author is affiliated with the Atmospheric Turbulence and Diffusion Division of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Air Resources Laboratory. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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