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Materials for InstructorsThe Atmospheric General Circulation by Wallace et al. (2023) How to use this bookThe book is intended as a text for advanced undergraduate and graduate level courses on the general circulation and as a reference for atmospheric dynamists, synopticians, and those who work in the field of climate dynamics. It is written at a level that should be comprehensible to students who have successfully completed at least one atmospheric dynamics course. The book is sufficiently long that an instructor using it as required reading for a course will need to make some choices. Instructors teaching classes that include students with minimal backgrounds in atmospheric dynamics will have to forgo Part III and present the Transformed Eulerian Mean formulation in an abbreviated form or avoid talking about it altogether, taking care to omit subsequent sections that are heavily dependent on it. Conversely, in a more advanced course to be offered to students with strong backgrounds in atmospheric dynamics, a cursory treatment of Part II on the balance requirements should be sufficient. Either option offers the instructor quite a lot of latitude in choosing which of the chapters and sections in Parts IV, V, and IV to include. For example, a course could focus on the middle atmosphere (Part IV), the extratropical troposphere (Part V), or on the tropical troposphere (Section 10.2 and Part VI). If Part III is included in the course syllabus, the instructor might consider assigning or at least recommending a more conventional dynamics text such as Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics, by G.K. Vallis for the benefit of the student who learns more effectively by studying equations than by studying graphics. Solutions ManualThis takes you to a page at Cambridge University Press. Exercises for use of InstructorsThis takes you to a locked page at Cambridge University Press. |
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