Mesoscale meteorological modeling: Roger A. Pielke Academic Press, Orlando, Florida, 1984, pp. 612
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MESOSCALE M ETEOROLOGICAL MODELING Roger A. Pielke Academic Press, Orlando, Florida, 1984, pp. 612 This book represents an out- standing overview of mesoscale meteorological modeling (i.e., phenomena with an horizontal scale of a few kilometers to several hundred kilometers). I strongly recommend this book to any scientist involved in meteorological or air quality studies. The book starts from basic principles and presents a detailed and complete description of the basic set of meteorological equations and their simplification, in order to permit their solution. This is followed by chapters dealing with the averaging of the conservation relations, the description of the different types of available models, the simplification generated by coordinate transformations, the parameterization of the average subgrid scale fluxes, and the radiation dnd moist thermo- dynamic processes. The above description of the physical aspects of the problem is followed by an extensive discussion on the numerical schemes for the solution of the meteorological equations, the problem of boundary and initial conditions, and the criteria to be used for the evaluation of model performance. Many examples are provided throughout the text. I found Appendix B extremely useful: it provides a good description of each group active in prognostic numeric mesoscale modeling in 1983 (about one page per group) together with a basic description of the characteristics of the models developed by each group. 60 Environmental Software, 1986, Vol 1, An impressive list of references is provided, together with a subject index. An excellent book! PZ TH E VISUAL DISPLAY OF QUANTITATIVE I N FORMATION Edward R. Tufte Graphlc Press, Cheshire, Connectlcut, 1983, pp. 197 This is a wonderful book. It provides an interesting description of the history of statistical graphics, i.e. the use of abstract, non-representational pictures to show numbers. The book also shows how to communicate information through the simultaneous presentation of words, numbers and pictures. I particularly enjoyed Chapter 2 of the book, called "Graphical Integrity". It shows how some graphics distort the underlying data and presents several examples of statistical charts which "lie". An interesting "lie factor" computation is also provided which measures the graphical "integrity" of a graph. The book is well printed and illustrated and a subject index is provided. PZ ANNUAL REVIEW OF FLUID MECHANICS Milton Van Dyke (Co-Editor) J.V. Wehausen (Co-Editor) and John L. Lumley (Associate Editor) Palo Alto, CA, Vol. 17, 1985, Annual Reviews Inc. Palo Alto, No. 1. CA, Vol. 17, 1985, pp. 630 This is the most recent volume of this excellent series. The book contains 19 articles, 5 of them directly related to environmental issues. They are: 1) Mathe- matical Models of Dispersion in Rivers and Estuaries; 2) Sound Transmission in the Ocean; 3) Fluid Modeling of Pollutant Transport and Diffusion in Stably Stratified Flows Over Complex Terrain; 4) Modeling Equatorial Ocean Circulation; 5)Turbulent Diffusion From Sources in Complex Flows. Each article is independent from the others, but a general subject index is provided, together with cumulative indices of the contributing authors (vols. 1-17) and chapter titles (vols. 1-16). PZ APPLI ED STATISTICS ALGORITHMS P. Griffiths and I.D. Hill, editors Published by Ellis Horwood Ltd, Chichester, for the Royal Statistical Society London. Distributed by John Wiley & Sons Ltd, New York, Chlchester, Brisbane, and Ontario. 1985. Statistical algorithms have been published in Applied Statistics, one of the journals of the Royal Statistical Society, for the last 16 years. These algorithms have become standards for statistical computation, and have been extensively vetted and updated. Most of these algorithms have been written in FORTRAN, but some were originally written and published in ALGOL. Algorithms written in BASIC have not been
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MESOSCALE M ETEOROLOGICAL MODELING Roger A. Pielke Academic Press, Orlando, Florida, 1984, pp. 612 This book represents an out- standing overview of mesoscale meteorological modeling (i.e., phenomena with an horizontal scale of a few kilometers to several hundred kilometers). I strongly recommend this book to any scientist involved in meteorological or air quality studies. The book starts from basic principles and presents a detailed and complete description of the basic set of meteorological equations and their simplification, in order to permit their solution. This is followed by chapters dealing with the averaging of the conservation relations, the description of the different types of available models, the simplification generated by coordinate transformations, the parameterization of the average subgrid scale fluxes, and the radiation dnd moist thermo- dynamic processes. The above description of the physical aspects of the problem is followed by an extensive discussion on the numerical schemes for the solution of the meteorological equations, the problem of boundary and initial conditions, and the criteria to be used for the evaluation of model performance. Many examples are provided throughout the text. I found Appendix B extremely useful: it provides a good description of each group active in prognostic numeric mesoscale modeling in 1983 (about one page per group) together with a basic description of the characteristics of the models developed by each group. 60 Environmental Software, 1986, Vol 1,
An impressive list of references is provided, together with a subject index. An excellent book! PZ
TH E V I S U A L DISPLAY OF QUANTITATIVE I N FORMATION Edward R. Tufte Graphlc Press, Cheshire, Connectlcut, 1983, pp. 197 This is a wonderful book. It provides an interesting description of the history of statistical graphics, i.e. the use of abstract, non-representational pictures to show numbers. The book also shows how to communicate information through the simultaneous presentation of words, numbers and pictures. I particularly enjoyed Chapter 2 of the book, called "Graphical Integrity". It shows how some graphics distort the underlying data and presents several examples of statistical charts which "lie". An interesting "lie factor" computation is also provided which measures the graphical "integrity" of a graph. The book is well printed and illustrated and a subject index is provided. PZ
A N N U A L REVIEW OF FLUID M E C H A N I C S Milton Van Dyke (Co-Editor) J.V. Wehausen (Co-Editor) and John L. Lumley (Associate Editor) Palo Alto, CA, Vol. 17, 1985, Annual Reviews Inc. Palo Alto, No. 1.
CA, Vol. 17, 1985, pp. 630 This is the most recent volume of this excellent series. The book contains 19 articles, 5 of them directly related to environmental issues. They are: 1) Mathe- matical Models of Dispersion in Rivers and Estuaries; 2) Sound Transmission in the Ocean; 3) Fluid Modeling of Pollutant Transport and Diffusion in Stably Stratified Flows Over Complex Terrain; 4) Modeling Equatorial Ocean Circulation; 5)Turbulent Diffusion From Sources in Complex Flows. Each article is independent from the others, but a general subject index is provided, together with cumulative indices of the contributing authors (vols. 1-17) and chapter titles (vols. 1-16). PZ
APPLI ED STATISTICS ALGORITHMS P. Griffiths and I.D. Hill, editors Published by Ellis Horwood Ltd, Chichester, for the Royal Stat ist ical Soc iety London. Distributed by John Wiley & Sons Ltd, New York, Chlchester, Brisbane, and Ontario. 1985. Statistical algorithms have been published in Applied Statistics, one of the journals of the Royal Statistical Society, for the last 16 years. These algorithms have become standards for statistical computation, and have been extensively vetted and updated. Most of these algorithms have been written in FORTRAN, but some were originally written and published in ALGOL. Algorithms written in BASIC have not been
