PART I: Dry Convection
1: General Principles
2: Convection from Local Sources
3: Global Convection: The Rayleigh-Benard Problem and Dry
Convective Boundary Layers
PART II: Moist Thermodynamics and Stability
4: Moist Thermodynamic Processes
5: Graphical Techniques
6: Stability
PART III: Local Properties of Moist Convection
7: Observed Characteristics of Nonprecipitating Cumuli
8: Theory of Mixing in Cumulus Clouds
9: Observed Characteristics of Precipitating Convection
10: Numerical Modeling of Convective Clouds
11: Dynamics of Precipitating Convection
12: Slantwise Convection
PART IV: Global Moist Convection
13: Stratocumulus and Trade-Cumulus Boundary Layers
14: Deep Convective Regimes
15: Interaction of Convection with Large-scale Flows
16: Cumulus Representations in Numerical Models
Kerry A. Emanuel, Ph. D., is Professor, and Director of the Center for Meteorology and Physical Oceanography at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
"[A]n excellent monograph by a leading atmospheric scientist...will
be consulted by everyone interested in the complexities of
dynamical meteorology and in the improvement of practical methods
of climate and weather prediction."--Physics Today
"Exceptionally interesting....Stimulating....Moist convection is
not easy to characterize by models that can be analyzed
analytically and yet illuminate essential physical mechanisms. The
strength of this book is to blaze an intellectual trail through the
field by collecting such models and presenting them and their
assumptions completely and clearly enough that readers can derive
and understand for themselves all essential equations and
results....A major
contribution that belongs on the bookshelf of any scholar of the
subject. Its orientation toward conceptual models also makes it
particularly useful for and accessible to researchers in areas such
as
climate dynamics....Makes a nice (and affordable) textbook on
atmospheric convection for mathematically inclined advanced
graduate students and it includes exercises of all levels of
difficulty." --Christopher S. Bretherton, University of Seattle,
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
"The author...has written an excellent graduate level teaching
text....If the reviewer had not inherited the book by way of
reviewing, he would have gone out and bought it anyway for its
contained value in shaping and forming one's avenue of approach to
the subject - praise enough, indeed!--Physics in Canada
"Each chapter concludes with exercises for students and the author
gives as well the e-mail address from which codes useful for
solving some of them are available. The clear layout of the text
and the favorable selection of the illustrations should also be
emphasized...Useful not only for students but for professionals as
well. A valuable contribution to the library of meteorological
textbooks and monographs."--Krzysztof Haman, Institute of
Geophysics
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