Author: A. Wiin-Nielsen
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195071276
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
This beginning graduate-level text treats in detail the relations between internal, potential, and kinetic energy in the atmosphere. The first part of the book describes the generation, transformation, and dissipation of the basic energy quantities in the global atmosphere and the subdivision of these forms of energy in a number of energy reservoirs. The second part covers energetics in open domains and presents the major results of observational studies. Individual chapters discuss energetics of the tropics and the Southern Hemisphere and of such phenomena as the jet stream and stationary eddies. This will be a valuable text for advanced students in atmospheric dynamics.
The Complete Atmospheric Energetics Experiment
Author: Kirill I︠A︡kovlevich Kondratʹev
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aerosols
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aerosols
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Atmospheric Energetics in Isentropic Coordinates
Atmospheric Energetics in Regions of Intense Convective Activity
Author: Henry E. Fuelberg
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Atmospheric thermodynamics
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Synoptic-scale budgets of kinetic and total potential energy are computed using 3- and 6-h data at nine times from NASA's fourth Atmospheric Variability Experiment conducted on 24-25 April 1975. Two intense squall lines occurred during the period. Energy budgets for areas as small as 8.0 x 1011 m2 that enclose regions of intense convection are shown to have systematic changes that relate to the life cycles of the convection. Some of the synoptic-scale energy processes associated with the convection are found to be larger than those observed in the vicinity of mature cyclones. Volumes enclosing intense convection are found to have large values of cross-contour conversion of potential to kinetic energy and large horizontal export of kinetic energy. Although small net vertical transport of kinetic energy is observed, values at individual layers indicate large upward transport. Transfer of kinetic energy from grid to subgrid scales of motion occurs in the volumes. Latent heat release is large in the middle and upper troposphere and is thought to be the cause of the observed cyclic changes in the budget terms. Total potential energy is found to be imported horizontally in the lower half of the atmosphere, transported aloft, and then exported horizontally. Although local changes of kinetic energy and total potential energy are small, interaction between volumes enclosing convection with surrounding larger volumes is quite large. Spatial fields of terms in the energy budget equations are shown at three times. These have good continuity and are closely related to the locations and intensities of the two squall lines.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Atmospheric thermodynamics
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Synoptic-scale budgets of kinetic and total potential energy are computed using 3- and 6-h data at nine times from NASA's fourth Atmospheric Variability Experiment conducted on 24-25 April 1975. Two intense squall lines occurred during the period. Energy budgets for areas as small as 8.0 x 1011 m2 that enclose regions of intense convection are shown to have systematic changes that relate to the life cycles of the convection. Some of the synoptic-scale energy processes associated with the convection are found to be larger than those observed in the vicinity of mature cyclones. Volumes enclosing intense convection are found to have large values of cross-contour conversion of potential to kinetic energy and large horizontal export of kinetic energy. Although small net vertical transport of kinetic energy is observed, values at individual layers indicate large upward transport. Transfer of kinetic energy from grid to subgrid scales of motion occurs in the volumes. Latent heat release is large in the middle and upper troposphere and is thought to be the cause of the observed cyclic changes in the budget terms. Total potential energy is found to be imported horizontally in the lower half of the atmosphere, transported aloft, and then exported horizontally. Although local changes of kinetic energy and total potential energy are small, interaction between volumes enclosing convection with surrounding larger volumes is quite large. Spatial fields of terms in the energy budget equations are shown at three times. These have good continuity and are closely related to the locations and intensities of the two squall lines.
Atmospheric Energetics as Related to Cyclogenesis Over the Eastern United States
Author: Philip Walter West
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cyclones
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cyclones
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports
Environmental Systems
Author: I. D. White
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780748740819
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 682
Book Description
Based on the authors' combined teaching and research experience over many years, this is an integrated and unified account of systems on all scales from planetary to molecular.
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780748740819
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 682
Book Description
Based on the authors' combined teaching and research experience over many years, this is an integrated and unified account of systems on all scales from planetary to molecular.
Studies in Atmospheric Energetics Based on Aerospace Probings
Author: University of Wisconsin. Department of Meteorology
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aeronautics in meteorology
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aeronautics in meteorology
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Index for Volumes 1-41
Author:
Publisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 0080547400
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
This series provides a venue for longer reviews of current advances in geophysics. Written at a level accessible to graduate students, the articles serve to broaden knowledge of various fields and may be useful in courses and seminars.
Publisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 0080547400
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
This series provides a venue for longer reviews of current advances in geophysics. Written at a level accessible to graduate students, the articles serve to broaden knowledge of various fields and may be useful in courses and seminars.
Studies of Large Scale Atmospheric Energetics
Energetics of Physical Environment
Author: Kenneth John Gregory
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Recent developments in physical geography have demonstrated the need for and advantages of an approach to physical environment based on energy and power as the rate of doing work. This energetic approach has been used in meteorology and climatology, in biogeography, soil geography, geomorphology and hydrology. The book contains six essays which demonstrate the importance of energetics in these major branches of physical geography and how it has gained prominence in the last few years. Because the approach is a feature of all branches of physical geography, energetics provides a unifying theme for the study of the physical environment. Although this book is not a proceedings volume, much of the material was presented at the British Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Bristol in September 1986.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Recent developments in physical geography have demonstrated the need for and advantages of an approach to physical environment based on energy and power as the rate of doing work. This energetic approach has been used in meteorology and climatology, in biogeography, soil geography, geomorphology and hydrology. The book contains six essays which demonstrate the importance of energetics in these major branches of physical geography and how it has gained prominence in the last few years. Because the approach is a feature of all branches of physical geography, energetics provides a unifying theme for the study of the physical environment. Although this book is not a proceedings volume, much of the material was presented at the British Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Bristol in September 1986.