Principles of Planetary Climate (Record no. 10582)
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 9780521865562 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 0521865565 |
| 082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 551.5 |
| Item number | PIE/PR |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Pierrehumbert, Raymond T. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Principles of Planetary Climate |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication | Cambridge ; |
| -- | New York : |
| Name of publisher | Cambridge University Press, |
| Year of publication | 2010. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | xxv, 652 p. : |
| Other physical details | ill. ;HB |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | 1. The big questions -- 2. Thermodynamics in a nutshell -- 3. Elementary models of radiation balance -- 4. Radiative transfer in temperature-stratified atmospheres -- 5. Scattering -- 6. The surface energy balance -- 7. Variation of temperature with season and latitude -- 8. Evolution of the atmosphere -- 9. A peek at dynamics. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | "This book introduces the reader to all the basic physical building blocks of climate needed to understand the present and past climate of Earth, the climates of Solar System planets, and the climates of extrasolar planets. These building blocks include thermodynamics, infrared radiative transfer, scattering, surface heat transfer and various processes governing the evolution of atmospheric composition. Nearly four hundred problems are supplied to help consolidate the reader's understanding, and to lead the reader towards original research on planetary climate. This textbook is invaluable for advanced undergraduate or beginning graduate students in atmospheric science, Earth and planetary science, astrobiology, and physics. It also provides a superb reference text for researchers in these subjects, and is very suitable for academic researchers trained in physics or chemistry who wish to rapidly gain enough background to participate in the excitement of the new research opportunities opening in planetary climate"-- |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | "The climate system is made up of building blocks which in themselves are based on elementary physical principles, but which have surprising and profound collective behavior when allowed to interact on the planetary scale. In this sense, the "climate game" is rather like the game of Go, where interesting structure emerges from the interaction of simple rules on a big playing field, rather than complexity in the rules themselves. This book is intended to provide a rapid entré into this fascinating universe of problems for the student who is already somewhat literate in physics and mathematics, but who has not had any previous experience with climate problems. The subject matter of each individual chapter could easily fill a textbook many times over, but even the abbreviated treatment given here provides enough core material for the student to begin treating original questions in the physics of climate"-- |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Planetary meteorology. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Climatology. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Paleoclimatology. |
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| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | Books |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Collection code | Home library | Current library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Full call number | Accession Number | Koha item type |
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| Non-fiction | KUFOS Central Library | SFE Library Puduvypu | General Stacks | 26/07/2016 | 551.5 PIE/PR | 12575 | Books |