UID:
almahu_9948025423102882
Format:
1 online resource (217 p.)
ISBN:
1-283-52643-3
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9786613838889
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0-08-095785-4
Series Statement:
International Geophysics Series
Content:
For advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students in atmospheric, oceanic, and climate science, Atmosphere, Ocean and Climate Dynamics is an introductory textbook on the circulations of the atmosphere and ocean and their interaction, with an emphasis on global scales. It will give students a good grasp of what the atmosphere and oceans look like on the large-scale and why they look that way. The role of the oceans in climate and paleoclimate is also discussed. The combination of observations, theory and accompanying illustrative laboratory experiments sets this text apart by m
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Description based upon print version of record.
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Front Cover; The Gravity Field of the Earth: from Classical and Modern Methods; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; PART I; Chapter I. General Theory; 1. Introductory considerations; the coordinates; 2. Morera's functions; 3. Gravity potential with a triaxial ellipsoid as equipotential surface; 4. Values of gravity at the ends of the semiaxes; 5. Pizzetti's theorem; 6. Modulus of the gravity vector and the conditions on the parameters; 7. Modulus of the gravity vector in terms of the coordinates; Chapter II. The Gravity Field of the Biaxial Case
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8. Gravity potential having a biaxial ellipsoid as equipotential surface9. The Pizzetti and Clairaut theorems for the biaxial model; 10. The Somigliana theorem; 11. International Gravity Formula and other gravity formulas; 12. The International Gravity Formula extended into space; 13. The shape of the earth as obtained from gravity measurements; 14. Spherical harmonics expansion of the potential of the normal gravity field; 15. Dimensions of the earth as obtained from gravity data and satellite data; 16. The flattening of the earth's equator
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Chapter III. The Gravity Field of the Triaxial Case: The Moon17. First-order theory of the field having a triaxial ellipsoid as an equipotential surface: the moon; 18. Comparison with the expansion of the potential in terms of the moments of inertia; 19. The shape of the moon; 20. The density distribution within the moon; 21. Is the surface of the moon equipotential?; Chapter IV. Gravitational Potential for Satellites; 22. Equations of motion of a satellite in the biaxial field; 23. The case of a prolate ellipsoid; 24. The motion of a satellite in the field described in Section 23
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25. Motion of a satellite in a nonbiaxial fieldChapter V. Determination of the Geoid from Terrestrial Data; 26. The determination of the geoid; 27. Bruns' equation and the equation of physical geodesy; 28. A boundary-value problem; 29. Stokes' formula; 30. The surface density distribution which gives the perturbing potential; 31. Introduction to the integral equations method for Stokes' formula; 32. Stokes' formula by the integral equation method; 33. Relations between the spectral components of the geoid, of the potential, and of the modulus of gravity
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Chapter VI. The Adjustment of the Parameters of the Field34. Problems arising from satellite results; 35. The nonrotating field; 36. The adjustment of the parameters; Chapter VII. A Simplified Biaxial Model; 37. A simple, accurate model for the nonrotating field: introduction; 38. The potential of the simplified model; 39. Properties of the simplified model; 40. The gravity vector; 41. The Clairaut and Pizzetti theorems; 42. Spherical harmonic expansion; 43. The actual field; Chapter VIII. Determination of the Geoid from Unreduced Terrestrial Data; 44. The method of Levallois
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45. The method of Molodenski
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-12-374924-7
Language:
English
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