MID-LATITUDE ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS: A FIRST COURSE

摘要

The book Mid-Latitude Atmospheric Dynamics is a marriage of two of the author's grand passions: synoptic meteorology and teaching. The result is a student-friendly yet rigorous textbook that accomplishes what no other textbook has done before: while the quasigeostrophic (QG) and potential vorticity (PV) frameworks have long been established in the meteorological literature, this is the first textbook that uses these frameworks to diagnose frontal disturbances at a level readily accessible to undergraduate students.