ATMOSPHERIC FRONTAL DYNAMICS

The first self-contained and comprehensive volume on atmospheric fronts, for students and instructors in atmospheric sciences and meteorology.

This volume offers the first self-contained and comprehensive coverage of atmospheric fronts, providing the reader with an understanding of the multifaceted aspects of both surface and upper-level fronts. Using illustrative analyses of a hierarchy of progressively complex frontal models, this book will be an asset to both researchers and students.

Auteur

Mankin Mak is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where he has taught and researched on atmospheric dynamics for many years. He completed his undergraduate study in engineering physics at the University of Toronto, Canada, followed by graduate study in meteorology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has published extensively in many international journals of atmospheric sciences and served as an editor of the Journal of Atmospheric Sciences. He is the author of Atmospheric Dynamics (Cambridge, 2011). His current research interest focuses on atmospheric frontal dynamics.

Contenu

Preface; Acknowledgement; 1. Overview; 2. Semi-geostrophic (SG) models; 3. Construction of two initial states for modeling fronts; 4. Two-dimensional SG frontal dynamics; 5. Three-dimensional SG frontal dynamics; 6. Impact of latent heat release on SG frontal dynamics; 7. General frontal dynamics; 8. Concluding remarks; References; Index.