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Weather, Macroweather, and the Climate
Shaun Lovejoy
其他書名
Our Random Yet Predictable Atmosphere
出版Oxford University Press, 2019-03-19
主題Science / Physics / GeophysicsScience / Physics / GeneralScience / Earth Sciences / Meteorology & Climatology
ISBN01908642309780190864231
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=eu-MDwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Weather, Macroweather, and the Climate is an insider's attempt to explain as simply as possible how to understand the atmospheric variability that occurs over an astonishing range of scales: from millimeters to the size of the planet, from milliseconds to billions of years. The variability is so large that standard ways of dealing with it are utterly inadequate: in 2015, it was found that classical approaches had underestimated the variability by the astronomical factor of a quadrillion (a million billion). Author Shaun Lovejoy asks - and answers - many fundamental questions such as: Is the atmosphere random or deterministic? What is turbulence? How big is a cloud (what is the appropriate notion of size itself)? What is its dimension? How can we conceptualize the structures within structures within structures spanning millimeters to thousands of kilometers and milliseconds to the age of the planet? What is weather? What is climate? Lovejoy shows in simple terms why the industrial epoch warming can't be natural - much simpler than trying to show that it's anthropogenic. We will discuss in simple terms how to make the best seasonal and annual forecasts - without giant numerical models. Above all, the book offers readers a new understanding of the atmosphere.