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Planetary Atmospheres (Hardcover)
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Planetary Atmospheres (Hardcover)
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The emphasis of Planetary Atmospheres is on comparative aspects of
planetary atmospheres, generally meaning comparison with the Earth,
including atmospheric composition, thermal structure, cloud
properties, dynamics, weather and climate, and aeronomy. The goal
is to look for common processes at work under different boundary
conditions in order to reach a fundamental understanding of the
physics of atmospheres. As part of a general Physics course, the
material is chosen to emphasise certain aspects that will be of
broad topical interest:
- evolutionary processes, setting the Earth in its context as a
planet and a member of the Solar System
- the properties of atmospheres that affect the climate near the
surface of each planet
- measurement techniques and models, where the same experimental
and theoretical physics is applied under different conditions to
investigate and explain atmospheric behaviour.
These might be thought of as the astronomical, environmental, and
technical sides of the discipline respectively.
The book covers the basic physics of planetary atmospheres in a
single text for students or anyone interested in this area of
science. The approach is the same as in the author's previous book
Elementary Climate Physics: an overview, followed by more detailed
discussion of key topics arranged by physical phenomenon and not
planet by planet as usually found in this field. There is an
emphasis on acquiring and interpreting measurements, and the basic
physics of instruments and models, with key definitions and some
historical background in footnotes and in the glossary at the end
of the book.
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