Dear Shafer, May I venture to suggest one of the few places where there's an intelligible non-mathematicians' explanation of the Rossby-wave mechanism (showing why it's ubiquitous as well as important)?
http://www.atm.damtp.cam.ac.uk/people/mem/papers/ECMWF/ If you want to cut straight to the relevant bit, it's precisely at http://www.atm.damtp.cam.ac.uk/people/mem/papers/ECMWF/#movie where in case your emailer messes it up, the symbol before "movie" is a hash. Best wishes, Michael McIntyre On Wed, 12 Dec 2007, Shafer Smith wrote: > Dear colleagues, > > I'm looking for a recommendation for an undergraduate text on > weather/climate. In particular, looking for something one notch (or > half notch) lower level than the new book by Marshall and Plumb. As > calibration, the course on which Marshall and Plumb is based at MIT has > a prerequisite of multivariate calculus and physics I; I'm shooting for > something appropriate to students who know 1d calculus and a little > physics. Ideally the course will employ rotating tank demonstrations. > Any comments or recommendations welcome! > > Thanks in advance, > Shafer _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@atmosocean.org http://www.atmosocean.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
