Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Atmospheric Science, Second Edition, is the long-awaited update of the classic atmospheric science text, which helped define the field nearly 30 years ago and has served as the cornerstone for most university curricula. Now students and professionals alike can use this updated classic to understand atmospheric phenomena in the context of the latest discoveries, and prepare themselves for more advanced study and real-life problem solving.

This latest edition of Atmospheric Science , has been revamped in terms of content and appearance. It contains new chapters on atmospheric chemistry, the Earth system, the atmospheric boundary layer, and climate, as well as enhanced treatment of atmospheric dynamics, radiative transfer, severe storms, and global warming. The authors illustrate concepts with full-color, state-of-the-art imagery and cover a vast amount of new information in the field. Extensive numerical and qualitative exercises help students apply basic physical principles to atmospheric problems. There are also biographical footnotes summarizing the work of key scientists, along with a student companion website that hosts climate data; answers to quantitative exercises; full solutions to selected exercises; skew-T log p chart; related links, appendices; and more. The instructor website features: instructor's guide; solutions to quantitative exercises; electronic figures from the book; plus supplementary images for use in classroom presentations.

Meteorology students at both advanced undergraduate and graduate levels will find this book extremely useful.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Preface
• Units and Numerical Values
• A brief Survey of the Atmosphere
• Atmospheric Thermodynamics
• Extratropical Synoptic-Scale Disturbances
• Atmospheric Aerosol and Cloud Microphysical Processes
• Clouds and Storms
• Radiative Transfer
• The Global Energy Balance
• Atmospheric Dynamics
• The General Circulation
• Index

Reviews provided by Syndetics

CHOICE Review

Wallace and Hobbs (both, Univ. of Washington) offer this excellent update of an outstanding introductory work (1st ed., 1977) for atmospheric science, well suited for students starting out in meteorology at any level (undergraduate and higher), particularly those with a scientific background. The organization of the book is very clear. Each chapter is well laid out with clear diagrams, good quality figures, and explanatory text. Each subject can be read separately, although there is a logic to understanding some basics about atmospheric thermodynamics, radiative transfer, atmospheric chemistry, cloud microphysics, and atmospheric dynamics before moving on to weather systems, the atmospheric boundary layer, and climate dynamics. There are some very useful additional features, like the working through of problems in the text, a large number of exercises, and a supporting Web site with additional material. Clearly, a great deal of work has gone into thoroughly updating this book and introducing new chapters on atmospheric chemistry and climate dynamics to provide a first-class resource book that should serve students very well. ^BSumming Up: Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through graduate students; two-year technical program students. R. J. Barthelmie Indiana University

Author notes provided by Syndetics

John M. Wallace is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Atmospheric Sciences of the University of Washington. He served as Department Chair from 1983-1988. He is a recipient of the James B. Macelwane and Roger Revelle Medals of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), and the Clarence Leroy Meisinger Award and Carl-Gustav Rossby Medal of the American Meteorological Society (AMS). He is a Fellow of the AGU and the AMS, a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is the co-author (with Peter Hobbs) of Atmospheric Sciences: An Introductory Survey (2006), one of the most influential textbooks in the field.

PETER V. HOBBS was born in London in 1936. He received his doctorate from Imperial College, University of London, where he worked in the research group headed by Sir B. John Mason. He joined the Department of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Washington in 1963, and served as a faculty member there until his death in 2005. In his role as founder and director of the the Cloud and Aerosol Research Group(CARG) in the department, he acquired and maintained a series of instrumented research aircraft with which he and his staff and students made field measurements of clouds, frontal systems and effluents from fires, volcanoes and industrial sources in many different parts of the world. He was a prolific writer and a devoted instructor and mentor of students. In recognition of his research and teaching contributions he was named an Honorary Member of the American Meteorological Society.