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Weather, Macroweather, and the Climate: Our Random Yet Predictable Atmosphere

Autor Shaun Lovejoy
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 20 iun 2019
Weather, Macroweather, and the Climate is an insider's attempt to explain as simply as possible how to understand the atmospheric variability that occurs over an astonishing range of scales: from millimeters to the size of the planet, from milliseconds to billions of years. The variability is so large that standard ways of dealing with it are utterly inadequate: in 2015, it was found that classical approaches had underestimated the variability by the astronomical factor of a quadrillion (a million billion). Author Shaun Lovejoy asks - and answers - many fundamental questions such as: Is the atmosphere random or deterministic? What is turbulence? How big is a cloud (what is the appropriate notion of size itself)? What is its dimension? How can we conceptualize the structures within structures within structures spanning millimeters to thousands of kilometers and milliseconds to the age of the planet? What is weather? What is climate? Lovejoy shows in simple terms why the industrial epoch warming can't be natural - much simpler than trying to show that it's anthropogenic. We will discuss in simple terms how to make the best seasonal and annual forecasts - without giant numerical models. Above all, the book offers readers a new understanding of the atmosphere.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780190864217
ISBN-10: 0190864214
Pagini: 352
Ilustrații: 46 halftones; 94 line art
Dimensiuni: 239 x 163 x 31 mm
Greutate: 0.75 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States

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excellently places a really beautiful and instructive discussion about some key points: random vs. deterministic, turbulence, scales, (fractional) dimensions, weather vs. macroweather vs. climate, providing a new understanding of the atmosphere . . . the reader will be fascinated in discovering a different point of view of understanding data and modeling physical systems as simple as possible. It is therefore a must for anyone having interests in nonlinear geosciences and should be used for both pedagogical and research purposes due to its ease of understanding and readability, being characterized by 20 "boxes" with more in depth information as well as footnotes helping readers who want more information.
[T]his book is a well written, incisive analysis of the atmosphere's behaviour over a wide range of spatial and temporal scales, aimed at the wider scientific audience. It is highly recommended to professional meteorologists too, and this reviewer certainly benefited from reading it.
[Lovejoy] explains in simple terms the concept of atmospheric variability, from millimetre to planetary scales and from milliseconds to billions of years...students looking for an introduction to atmospheric modeling will not easily find one more readable than Weather, Macroweather, and the Climate.

Notă biografică

Shaun Lovejoy is Professor of Physics at McGill University, where he also earned his PhD in the same subject. He received his undergraduate and Master's degree in theoretical physics from Trinity College, Cambridge. He studies scaling ideas in the geosciences, and has contributed to the explosive growth of nonlinear geophysics including the modeling and empirical analyses and characterization of geosystems over wide ranges of scales.