Atmospheric Thermodynamics
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Product details:
- Edition number 2
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 1 May 2023
- ISBN 9780198872719
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages608 pages
- Size 247x172x28 mm
- Weight 1184 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 87 line drawings 433
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Short description:
Atmospheric Thermodynamics provides a comprehensive treatment of a subject that can often be intimidating. The text analyses real-life problems and applications of the subject, alongside of guiding the reader through the fundamental basics followed by an emphasis on moist processes in the Earth's atmosphere.
MoreLong description:
Atmospheric Thermodynamics provides a comprehensive treatment of a subject that can often be intimidating. The text analyses real-life problems and applications of the subject, alongside of guiding the reader through the fundamental basics and covering the first and second laws and the ideal gas law, followed by an emphasis on moist processes in Earth's atmosphere. Water in all its phases is a critical component of weather and the Earth's climate system.
With user-friendly chapters that include energy conservation and water and its transformations, the authors write with a willingness to expose assumptions and approximations usually absent in other textbooks. History is woven into the text to provide a context for the time evolution of thermodynamics and its place in atmospheric science and demonstrating how physical reasoning leads to correct explanations of everyday phenomena. Many of the experiments described were done using inexpensive instruments to take advantage of the earth's atmosphere as a freely accessible thermodynamics library.
This second edition provides updated treatments of atmospheric measurements and substantially expanded sections that include atmospheric applications of the first and second laws and energy exchange between humans and their atmospheric environment. With 400+ thought provoking problems and 350 references with annotated notes and further reading suggestions, this second edition provides a basic understanding of the fundamentals of this subject while still being a comprehensive reference guide for those working in the field of atmospheric and environmental sciences.
I've never been more excited about a book! I couldn't put it down. It's about time somebody wrote an understandable and intuitive book about thermodynamics. Bohren and Albrechts' book is really a breath of fresh air!
Table of Contents:
1 INTRODUCTION: CONSERVATION OF ENERGY
Thermodynamics: A Science of Measurable Quantities
Conservation of Energy in Mechanics
Conservation of Energy: A System of Point Molecules
A Few Examples of Energy Conservation
Kinetic Energy Exchanges in Molecular Collisions
Working and Heating
Some Necessary Thermodynamic Concepts and Jargon
Thermodynamic Internal Energy and the First Law
2 IDEAL GAS LAW: PRESSURE AND ABSOLUTE TEMPERATURE
Gas Pressure and Absolute Temperature: What Are They and What Are They Not?
Pressure Decrease with Height: Continuum Approach
Pressure Decrease with Height: Molecular Interpretation
The Maxwell-Boltzmann Distribution of Molecular Speeds
Intermolecular Separation, Mean Free Path, and Collision Rate
Is the Pressure Gradient a Fundamental Force of Nature?
Surface Pressure and Weight of the Atmosphere
The Atmosphere Is a Mixture of Gases: Dalton's Law
3 SPECIFIC HEATS AND ENTHALPY: ADIABATIC PROCESSES
A Critique of the Mathematics of Thermodynamics
Specific Heats and Enthalpy
Adiabatic Processes: Poisson's Relations
(Dry) Adiabatic Processes in the Atmosphere
Stability and Buoyancy
Specific Heats of Gas Molecules
Heat Capacities of Mixtures of Gases
Atmospheric Applications of the First Law
Chemical Reactions and Temperature Changes
Residence Time of the Internal Kinetic Energy of Earth's Atmosphere
4 ENTROPY
Entropy of an Ideal Gas
Entropy Changes of Liquids and Isotropic Solids
Atmospheric Applications of the Second Law
5 WATER AND ITS TRANSFORMATIONS
Evaporation and Condensation of Water Vapor
Measures of Water Vapor in Air
The Clausius-Clapeyron Equation
van der Waals Equation of State
Phase Diagrams: Liquid-Vapor; Liquid-Solid-Vapor; Triple Point
Free Energy
Effect of Air Pressure on Saturation Vapor Pressure
Lowering of Vapor Pressure by Dissolution
Air in Water: Henry's Law
Size Dependence of Vapor Pressure: Water Droplets, Solution Droplets, and Bubbles
6 MOIST AIR AND CLOUDS
Precipitable Water in the Atmosphere
Lapse Rate of the Dew Point: Level of Cloud Formation
Density of Moist Air: Virtual Temperature
Wet-Bulb Temperature
Lapse Rate for Isentropic Ascent of a Saturated Parcel
Thermodynamic Diagrams
Stability and Cloud Formation
Mixing Clouds
Cloud Formation on Ascent and Descent
7 ENERGY, MOMENTUM, AND MASS TRANSFER
Energy Transfer by Thermal Conduction
Momentum Transfer: Viscosity
Mass Transfer: Diffusion
Bibliography
Index
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