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,This page intentionally left blank, An Introduction to Atmospheric Physics
Second Edition
The new edition of David Andrews’ excellent textbook has been significantly revised and
expanded. This textbook provides a quantitative introduction to the Earth’s atmosphere for
intermediate-advanced undergraduate and graduate students. It now includes a new chapter
on the physics of climate change which builds upon material introduced in earlier chapters,
giving the student a broad understanding of some of the physical concepts underlying this
most important and topical subject. In contrast to many other books on atmospheric science,
the emphasis is on the underlying physics. Atmospheric applications are developed mainly
in the problems given at the end of each chapter. The book is an essential resource for all
students of atmospheric physics as part of an atmospheric science, meteorology, physics,
Earth science, planetary science, or applied mathematics course.
David Andrews has been a lecturer in physics at Oxford University and a physics tutor at
Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, for 20 years. During this time he has had extensive experience
of teaching a wide range of physics courses, including atmospheric physics. This experi-
ence has included giving lectures to large student audiences and also giving tutorials to
small groups. Tutorials, in particular, have given him insights into the problems that
physics students encounter when learning atmospheric physics, and the kinds of topic
that excite them. His broad teaching experience has also helped him to introduce stu-
dents to connections between topics in atmospheric physics and related topics in other
areas of physics. He feels that it is particularly important to expose today’s physics stu-
dents to the stimulation and challenges presented by the atmosphere and climate. He has
also published a graduate textbook, Middle Atmosphere Dynamics, with J. R. Holton and
C. B. Leovy (1987, Academic Press). He is a fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society
and a member of the Institute of Physics.
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