Lectures in Meteorology is a comprehensive reference book for
meteorologists and environmental scientists to look up material on the
thermodynamics, dynamics and chemistry of the troposphere. The lectures
demonstrate how to derive/develop equations - an essential tool for
model development. All chapters present application of the material
including in numerical models. The lectures are written in modular form,
i.e. they can be used at the undergraduate level for classes covered by
the chapters or at the graduate level as a comprehensive, intensive
course. The student/instructor can address chapters 2 (thermodynamics)
and 4 (radiation) in any order. They can also switch the order of
chapter 5 (chemistry) and 6 (dynamics). Chapter 7 (climatology) needs
the understanding of all chapters. Chapter 3 (cloud physics) needs
basics from chapter 2 to understand the cloud microphysical processes.
The governing conservation equations for trace constituents, dry air,
water substances, total mass, energy, entropy, and momentum are
presented including simplifications and their application in models.
Basic principles of climatology discussed include analysis methods,
atmospheric waves and their analytical solutions, tropical and
extra-tropical cyclones, classical and non-classical mesoscale
circulations, and the global circulation. The atmospheric chemistry part
encompasses photolytic and gas-phase processes, aqueous chemistry,
aerosol processes, fundamentals of biogeochemical cycles and the ozone
layer. Solar and terrestrial radiation, major absorbers, radiation
balance, radiative equilibrium, radiative-convective equilibrium, basics
of molecular, aerosol, and cloud adsorption and scattering and their use
in remote sensing are presented.
