The Ceaseless Wind: An Introduction to the Theory of Atmospheric Motion

by John A. Dutton

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0070184070
• ISBN13: 9780070184077
• Release Date: January 1976
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
• Length: 579 Pages

Customer Reviews

A fundamental books for Atmospheric Physics

The atmospheric science is a young science and it is difficult to find rigorous, not only phenomenological, and precise books on it. I find this book a very precise, with a good mathematical description of phenomena, and self consistent books, very useful for physics of the atmosphere. Probably, in my opinion, some initial notion of general fluid mechanics is needed but this book is fundamental for people that want to construct a solid and mathematic bases in atmospheric physics.

One of the best ...

Dutton's great book on atmospheric motion is one of the best science texts ever written. It uniquely combines the difficult upper levels of fluid mechanics (to Navier-Stokes) with rule-of-thumb computational guidelines. And best of all it is a tale lovingly told. The man genuinely loves his subject, and just as importantly, he loves his students. He never talks down, but he explains with exquisite text and scads of diagrams. As one simple example, he shows how to graphically compute the material derivative of a flow, and you see how all the terms of the algebraic computation correspond to elements of the graphic description. Page after page is a true delight. Yes the real mathematics is all there. Dutton aims the book at upper under-grad and graduate students in meteorlogy or physics. I used the book for self-study and for the sheer joy of seeing real physics presented so clearly. If you just want a review of calculus in a delightful setting or perhaps a grand overview of the interplay of several disciplines (dynamics, fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, potential theory, etc.) then you will not be dissapointed with this magnificent book. A true classic at the level of Feynman.