Based on the highly successful research activities of the Reading Department of Meteorology this book provides a comprehensive approach to atmospheric dynamics. Using tried and tested teaching methods and based on a successful course taught at the acclaimed Department of Meteorology at Reading University, the book combines the high level data available from research papers with the accessibility of experienced teaching practice. After an introductory chapter, which gives a descriptive account of motions in the atmosphere, especially the mid-latitude troposphere, the book is divided into three broad sections: Basic fluid dynamics, applied to compressible flow on a rotating planet. Includes an introduction to scale analysis, to vertical coordinate systems and to ways of including density variations. Rotation in the atmosphere. Vorticity, potential vorticity, application of fluid dynamical models to turbulent systems. Balance in atmospheric flow provides the linking theme of the third part. How does the midlatitude atmosphere stay close to a state of geostrophic balance, and what are the implications of this for vertical motion and for interactions between different scales of motion? Review of observed flow, balance conditions, the quasi-geostrophic approximation, models of baroclinic instability, waves and turbulence in the mid-latitudes. A theme of the book, running throughout, is the use of a vortex-wave duality of atmospheric motions as a key to conceptual understanding of dynamical effects in atmospheric flow. The PV framework underpins this framework. The interactions between discrete vortices together with the theory of Rossby wave trains provide the building blocks for understanding individual phenomena. Finally, the adjustments required to preserve flow balance lead to the theories of frontogenesis. While such ideas are present in other texts written at a comparable level, no other text uses them as an explicit theme. A set of problems will be provided at the end of each chapter alonside a separate bibliography for ease of reference. This book will be included in the new RMetS-Wiley-Blackwell co-branded book series and will be a flagship title for this series. The authors are highly respected academics in the field with Professor Hoskins receiving a knighthood in 2007. Both are leading authorities on climate.

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