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082 _aCir./632.1/W187/2023
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100 _aWallace, John M.
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245 _aThe atmospheric general circulation /
_cby John M. Wallace, David S. Battisi, David W. J. Thompson and Dennis L. Hartman.
260 _aUnited States of America :
_bCambridge University Press,
_cc2023.
300 _axv, 406 pages :
_billustrations ;
_c29 cm.
500 _aincludes bibliography and index.
505 _aPreface.—Acknowledgements.—Background.—Atmospheric Observations and Models.—Heuristic Models of the General Circulation.—Balance Requirements of the General Circulation.—The Angular Momentum Balance.—Mass Balance of Atmospheric Trace Constituents.—Balance of Total Energy.-- The Mechanical Energy Cycle.-- Dynamics of the Zonal Mean Flow.--Wave -Mean Flow Interaction.-- The Stratospheric General Circulation.--The Global Stratospheric Circulation.-- Wave -Mean Flow Interaction in the Tropical Stratosphere.--The Zonally Varying Extratropical Tropospheric Circulation.-- The Northern Hemisphere Winter Zonally Varying Climatology.--The High Frequency Extratropical Transients.--The Low Frequency Extratropical Transients.-- The Tropical General Circulation.-- The Annual Mean Circulation.-- Tropical Convection.-- The Seasons in The Tropics.—EL Niño-Southern Oscillation.— Intraseasonal Variability of the Tropical General Circulation.—Day-to-Day Variability of the Tropical Circulation.—warm Core Tropical Vortices.—Diurnal and Higher Frequency Variability of the Global Circulation.—Appendix A Space and Time Averaging Operation.—Appendix B The Zonal Momentum Balance.—Appendix C Methods of Identifying Teleconnection Patterns.—Appendix D Scaling and Application Of the Weak Temperature Gradient Approximation.—Appendix E Math Symbols and Abbreviations.—Appendix F Extended Figure Captions.
650 0 _aAtmospheric.
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700 _aBattisti, David S.
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700 _aThompson, David W. J.
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700 _aHartman, Dennis L.
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