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This book describes in simple terms a new paradigm for understanding the atmosphere, that goes beyond just "weather" and "climate." Veering from the popular expression that "the climate is what you expect, the weather is what you get", this book takes the reader by the hand and explains that there is a third regime¿macroweather¿in between the weather and climate.
List of contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1: Zooming through scales by the billion
- Chapter 2: New worlds versus scaling: from van Leeuwenhoek to Mandelbrot
- Chapter 3: How big is a cloud?
- Chapter 4: The weather: nothing but turbulence...and don't mind the gap
- Chapter 5: Macroweather, the climate and beyond
- Chapter 6: What have we done?
- Chapter 7: Macroweather Predictions and Climate projections
- Conclusions: Richardson's other dream
- Glossary
- Index
About the author
Shaun Lovejoy is Professor of Physics at McGill University, where he also earned his PhD in the same subject. He received his undergraduate and Master's degree in theoretical physics from Trinity College, Cambridge. He studies scaling ideas in the geosciences, and has contributed to the explosive growth of nonlinear geophysics including the modeling and empirical analyses and characterization of geosystems over wide ranges of scales.
Summary
This book describes in simple terms a new paradigm for understanding the atmosphere, that goes beyond just "weather" and "climate." Veering from the popular expression that "the climate is what you expect, the weather is what you get", this book takes the reader by the hand and explains that there is a third regime--macroweather--in between the weather and climate.
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[Lovejoy] explains in simple terms the concept of atmospheric variability, from millimetre to planetary scales and from milliseconds to billions of years...students looking for an introduction to atmospheric modeling will not easily find one more readable than Weather, Macroweather, and the Climate.
