INTRODUCTION
TO PHYSICAL METEOROLOGY
ATMO
451b/551b
Textbook
Reference
There are no official textbooks for this course, but the material covered in the lectures can be found in a number of sources that will be described in class and placed on reserve in the ATMO/IAP library. There will also be number of class handouts, and the library contains a number of other books and journals that may be useful in learning and applying the concepts in physical meteorology.
Recent Textbooks
David G. Andrews
An Introduction to Atmospheric Physics
Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, UK, 2000, 229 pp.
Craig F. Bohren and Bruce A. Albrecht
Atmospheric Thermodynamics
Oxford University Press, New York, 1998, 402 pp.
John H. Seinfeld and Spyros N. Pandis
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1998, 1326 pp.
M. L. Salby
Fundamentals of Atmospheric Physics
Academic Press, San Diego, 1996, 624 pp.
R. Goody
Principles of Atmospheric Physics and Chemistry
Oxford Univ. Press, New York, 1995, 324 pp.
C. A. Riegel
Fundamentals of Atmospheric Dynamics and Thermodynamics
World Scientific, River Edge, NJ, 1992, 496 pp.
J. T. Houghton
The Physics of Atmospheres
Cambridge, New York, 1986, 271 pp. (2nd Edition)
H. G. Houghton
Physical Meteorology
MIT Press, 1985, 442 pp.
Older Books
R. G. Fleagle and J. A. Businger
An Introduction to Atmospheric Physics (2nd Edition)
Academic Press, New York, 1980, 432 pp.
J. V. Iribarne and H. Cho
Atmospheric Physics
D. Reidel, Boston, 1980, 212 pp.
S. L. Hess
Introduction to Theoretical Meteorology
Krieger Pub. Co., Huntington, N.Y., 1979
(Reprint of 1959 Edition)
J. C. Johnson
Physical Meteorology
MIT Press & Wiley
New York 1954, 393 pp.
W. J. Humphreys
Physics of the Air (1940)
Dover, New York, 1964, 676 pp.
H. Neuberger
Introduction to Physical Meteorology
Penn. State Univ. Press, 1957.
S. Brunt
Physical and Dynamical Meteorology
Cambridge Univ. Press, 1944, 428 pp.