1st printing. 8vo. ix, 253 pages. Black cloth, gilt titles; black & white charts, diagrams and illustrations. Negligible wear to boards; interior bright and clean. A near fine copy. NOT a reprint nor facsimile.

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Title: An Introduction to Global Spectral Modeling
Publisher: Oxford University Press, New York, New York, U.S.A.; Oxford, U.K.
Publication Date: 1998
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0195094735
ISBN 13: 9780195094732
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

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This is an introductory text on numerical weather prediction (numerically modelling the general circulation of the atmosphere), utilizing the spectral transform method. The book covers finite difference methods and time-differencing schemes; the theoretical development of the spectral transform method (using spherical surfaces rather than grids for determining variation in the elements of weather); physical processes; current issues in dynamical and physical initiation; and data analysis. Several practical examples of the spectral transform method are included.

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"[P]resents thoroughly the mathematics involved in modeling . . . storms, forecasting their paths, and understanding associated atmospheric dynamics. This book is intensively mathematical, with a focus on differential and integral calculus. . . . With respect to integral calculus, the section of the book on Gauss quadrature is interesting and unique . . . The two chapters on physical processes and initialization procedures are equally well written and explain the physical processes that must be accounted for in models . . . [I]f at all intrigued by how sophisticated weather forecasting has become . . . , then a reader will find this book not only interesting, but thorough enough to enable model development if that is a goal. Problems are presented at the end of each chapter, so this book can be used as a text in the classroom. Researchers involved in the modeling of turbulence, ocean systems, and tectonic systems may also value the presentations in this book."--Mathematical Geology

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