1. Edition - September 2009
142.- Euro
2009. XII, 305 Pages, Hardcover
93 Fig., 17 Tab. 
- Monograph -
ISBN-10: 3-527-40875-4
ISBN-13: 978-3-527-40875-7 - Wiley-VCH, Berlin






Content

Sample Chapter

Index



Short description
Filling a gap in the specialist literature, this is the only up-to-date title to provide a link between the Earth's rotation and its atmo- and hydrosphere, including the ice masses. A must for geophysicists, oceanographers, glaciologists, climatologists and meteorologists alike.


From the contents
1.Motions of the Earth
2.Pole's motion and irregularities in the Earth's rotation rate
3.Estimation theory of the effect of atmospheric processes on the Earth's spin
4.Tides and rotation of the Earth
5.Seasonal distribution of the air masses and the Earth's spin
6.Angular momentum of atmospheric winds
7.Nature of the zonal circulation of the atmosphere
8.Interannual oscillations of the Earth-ocean-atmosphere system
9.Mechanical action of the atmosphere on the Earth's rotation
10.Decadal fluctuations in geophysical processes
Appendices
List of Abbreviations
Bibliography