Atmospheric Tidal and Planetary Waves

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   • Hans Volland

   Pages 1-5

3. Basic Equations

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   Pages 6-32

4. External Energy Sources

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   Pages 33-52

5. Internal Energy Sources and Sinks

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   Pages 53-67

6. Horizontal Modal Structure

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   Pages 68-115

7. Vertical Modal Structure

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   Pages 116-157

8. Nonlinear Wave Propagation

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   Pages 158-198

9. Tidal Waves

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   Pages 199-265

10. Planetary Waves

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    Pages 266-321

11. Epilogue

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12. Back Matter

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Prior to the space age, meteorologists rarely paid particular attention to the height regions above the tropopause. What was known about the upper atmosphere above about 100 km came essentially from ionospheric and geomagnetic research. The region in between, presently known as the middle atmosphere, was almost terra incognita above the height reachable by balloons. It was space research that allowed for the first time direct access to middle and upper atmospheric heights. About 40 years ago, Sidney Chapman coined a new word 'aeronomy' to describe the study of these two height regions. When asked about the difference between aeronomy and meteorology, he allegedly replied: 'it is the same as between astronomy and astrology' . This mild irony indicates the preferred prejudice of many ionospheric physicists and geomagneticians in those days toward meteorology as a descriptive rather than an exact science, in spite of the presence of such giants as Carl Rossby and Hans Ertel.

• Scale
• Southern Oscillation
• Storm
• Tide
• wind

`It can be highly recommended for advanced students and workers in meteorology, geophysics, space physics, fluid mechanics and applied mathematics.'
Contributions to Atmospheric Physics/Beiträge zur Physik der Atmosphäre, 63 (3,4)

• Radioastronomical Institute, University of Bonn, Bonn, West Germany

  Hans Volland

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