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Edited by: Holton, James R.; Curry, Judith A.; Pyle, John A. © 2003
Elsevier
Description: This encyclopedia is an ideal resource for academia, government, and industry in the fields of atmospheric, ocean, and environmental sciences. It is written at a level that allows undergraduate students to understand the material, while providing active researchers with the latest information in the field.
Front Matter
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Preface
Guide to Use of the Encyclopedia
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Table of Contents
Acoustic Waves
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Aeolian Transport
Aerosols
Agricultural Meteorology and Climatology
Aircraft Emissions
Aircraft Icing
Air–Sea Interaction
Angular Momentum of the Atmosphere
Antarctic Climate
Anticyclones
Arctic Climate
Arctic Haze
Atmospheric Tides
Aviation Weather Hazards
Baroclinic Instability
Beaufort Wind Scale
Biogeochemical Cycles
Boundary Layers
Bow Echoes and Derecho
Buoyancy and Buoyancy Waves
Carbon Dioxide
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Chaos
Chemistry of the Atmosphere
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Cirrus Clouds
Clear Air Turbulence
Climate
Climate Prediction (Empirical and Numerical)
Climate Variability
Cloud Chemistry
Cloud Microphysics
Clouds
Coastal Meteorology
Cold Air Damming
Contrails
Convection
Convective Cloud Systems Modeling
Convective Storms
Coriolis Force
Coupled Ocean–Atmosphere Models
Critical Layers
Cyclogenesis
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Cyclones
Cyclones, Extra Tropical
Data Analysis
Density Currents
Deposition
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Derecho
Deserts and Desertification
Diurnal Cycle
Downslope Winds
Drought
Dryline
Dust
Dynamic Meteorology
El Niño and the Southern Oscillation
Electricity, Atmospheric
Energy Balance Model, Surface
Evolution of Atmospheric Oxygen
Evolution of Earth's Atmosphere
Flooding
Fog
Forensic Meteorology
Frontogenesis
Fronts
Gaia Hypothesis
General Circulation
Glaciers
Global Change
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Gravity Waves
Gust Fronts
Hadley Circulation
Hail and Hailstorms
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Haloes
Hamiltonian Dynamics
Humidity Variables
Hurricanes
Hydraulic Flow
Hydrology
Ice Ages (Milankovitch Theory)
Instability
Ionosphere
Isentropic Analysis
Isotopes, Stable
Jet Streaks
Katabatic Winds
Kelvin Waves
Kelvin–Helmholtz Instability
Kinematics
Laboratory Geophysical Fluid Dynamics
Laboratory Kinetics
Lagrangian Dynamics
Lake-Effect Storms
Land–Atmosphere Interactions
Land–Sea Breeze
Large Eddy Simulation
Lee Vortices
Lee Waves and Mountain Waves
Lidar
Lightning
Magnetosphere
Mesoscale Meteorology
Mesosphere
Meteors
Methane
Microbursts
Microclimate
Middle Atmosphere
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Mirages
Monsoon
Mountain Meteorology
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Mountain Waves
Noctilucent Clouds
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North Atlantic and Arctic Oscillation
Numerical Models
Observation Platforms
Observations for Chemistry (In Situ)
Observations for Chemistry (Remote Sensing)
Ocean Circulation
Operational Meteorology
Optics, Atmospheric
Orographic Effects
Ozone
Paleoclimatology
Palmer Drought Index
Parameterization of Physical Processes
Permafrost
Planetary Atmospheres
Polar Lows
Polar Thermosphere
Predictability and Chaos
Quasi-Geostrophic Theory
Radar
Radiation (Solar)
Radiative Transfer
Radioactivity
Radiosondes
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Rainbows
Reflectance and Albedo, Surface
Rossby Waves
Satellite Remote Sensing
Satellites
Sea Ice
Severe Storms
Snow (Surface)
Solar Terrestrial Interactions
Solar Winds
Solitary Waves
Soot
Spectral Models
Standard Atmosphere
Static Stability
Stationary Waves (Orographic and Thermally Forced)
Stratosphere–Troposphere Exchange
Stratospheric Chemistry and Composition
Stratospheric Ozone Recovery
Stratospheric Water Vapor
Surface Layer Measurements of Turbulence
Synoptic Meteorology
Teleconnections
Thermal Low
Thermodynamics
Thermosphere
Tornadoes
Tracers
Tropical Meteorology
Tropopause
Tropospheric Chemistry and Composition
Turbulence and Mixing
Turbulence, Two Dimensional
Turbulent Diffusion
Ultraviolet Radiation
Ultraviolet, Surface
Valley Winds
Volcanoes
Vorticity
Walker Circulation
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Water Vapor
Waterspouts
Wave Mean-Flow Interaction
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Waves
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Weather Forecasting
Weather Modification
Weather Prediction
Weather Regimes and Multiple Equilibria
Wildfire Weather
Wind Chill
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Wind Profilers
World Climate Research Program
Appendixes
Index
