This book is intended for students and laypersons interested in understanding weather activity in the atmosphere. Besides basic knowledge of mathematics and physics, no other prerequisites are necessary for comprehending the material.
This textbook gives a thorough introduction to the dynamics of weather. It provides readers with a basic understanding of the complex phenomena and their underlying processes. A rigorous mathematical derivation of all results and numerous figures are also included in the book to help illustrate and interpret weather maps, weather forecasts, atmospheric data and the output of atmospheric models.
Contents:
- Foundations of Atmospheric Dynamics
- Scale Analysis, Coordinate Systems and the Primitive Equations
- Waves in the Barotropic Atmosphere
- Dynamics of Baroclinic Weather Systems
- Nonlinear Dynamics
- Subsynoptic Weather Systems
- Appendix: Introduction to Some Useful Mathematical Tools
Readership: Undergraduate, graduate students and laypersons with solid basic knowledge in mathematics and physics, researchers in meteorology and oceanography.
Dr Thomas Frisius is currently employed at the Climate Service Center Germany (GERICS) of the Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon, Germany, which he joined in 2018. He studied Meteorology at the University Hamburg and received a PhD in 1999 on the topic of 'The impact of symmetry breaking instabilities on the nonlinear development of baroclinic waves'. From 2000 until 2007 he was a lecturer at the institute for meteorology and geophysics of the Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main. Afterwards, he worked at Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in the Max Planck Fellow Group 'Modeling Continuum Climate Variability'. In 2009, he was appointed as head of the Junior Research Group 'Dynamical Systems' within CLiSAP, the 'Integrated Climate System Analysis and Prediction' Cluster of Excellence, at the University Hamburg where he lectured on 'Theoretical Meteorology'. Dr Frisius' research interests include baroclinic waves, tropical cyclones, dynamical systems, global and regional atmospheric modelling and ocean dynamics.Klaus Fraedrich is guest scientist at the Max-Planck-Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany. His prior affiliations include: Professor at the University of Hamburg, Freie Universität Berlin, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn (all in Germany); visiting Professor at the Universities of New South Wales (Sydney, Australia), Washington (Seattle, USA), Wisconsin (Madison, USA), Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology (China), Head of Long-Range Weather Forecasting Research, Bureau of Meteorology Research Centre (Melbourne, Australia); and Postdoc at Colorado State University (Fort Collins, USA), visiting researcher in South America (Venezuela) and in Africa (East African Meteorology Department in Nairobi, Kenya). He has received awards including the Lewis Frey Richardson Medal (European Geophysical Union), Alfred Wegener Medal (Germany), Gay-Lussac-Humboldt Prize (France-Germany), Max Planck Research Prize (Germany), Max Planck Fellowship (Germany), Academy of Sciences and Humanities (Hamburg). His research interests span across regional climates, nonlinear systems analysis and predictability, weather dynamics of tropics and extra-tropics, building of a user-friendly and open access GCM hierarchy, and climate variability and attribution.
