Physical Principles of Meteorology and Environmental Physics: global, synoptic and micro scales

Abstract

Meteorology is generally regarded as a discipline in its own right and is normally taught at universities (if at all) separately from mainstream physics. In general the research literature is divided along similar lines, with some outstanding exceptions to this rule, e.g., Lorenz's 1963 paper in the Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, which has provided a springboard for the burgeoning field of chaos and nonlinear dynamics. One of the goals of our book is to bring the two fields a little closer, for there has never been a better time to do so.