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Atmospheric Thermodynamics by Craig F. Bohren; Bruce A. Albrecht; Professor of Meteorology and Physical Oceanography Bruce A Albrecht is a science book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Atmospheric Thermodynamics about?

This comprehensive text is based on the authors' course notes, refined and updated over 15 years of teaching. The core of the text focuses on water and its transformations. Four chapters lay the foundation, from energy conservation to the ideal gas law, specific heat capacities, adiabatic processes, and entropy. An extensive chapter treats phase transitions of water, and a lengthy discussion of the van der Waals equation sets the stage for phase diagrams. Free energy is applied to determining the effect of dissolved substances, total pressure, and size on vapor pressure. The chapter on moist air and clouds discusses wet-bulb and virtual temperatures, isentropic ascent of saturated air, thermodynamic diagrams, stability, and cloud formation. The final chapter covers energy, momentum, and mass transfer, topics not usually considered part of thermodynamics. Measurements are included and experiments and observations are suggested, all with the aim of breathing life into equations. The authors are careful to recognize and unafraid to criticize the treatments of thermodynamics that have been unchanged for more than a hundred years. Atmospheric Thermodynamics contains over 200 exercises,

Who reads Atmospheric Thermodynamics?

Author

Craig F. Bohren; Bruce A. Albrecht; Professor of Meteorology and Physical Oceanography Bruce A Albrecht

Publisher

IRL Press at Oxford University Press

Published

1998

Language

EN

ISBN

9780195099041

Category

science

Subjects

Science, Mathematics, Physics

Rating

3.9 / 5 (14 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14