Preface
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This book would not have been written without the generous assistance of several colleagues. Christopher Bretherton , in particular, provided many perceptive
answers to my endless questions. J. Ray Bates, Byron Boville, Michael Cullen,
Marcus Grote, Robert Higdon, Randall LeVeque, Christoph Schär, William Skamarock, Piotr Smolarkiewicz, and David Williamson all provided very useful
comments on individual chapters. Many students used earlier versions of this
manuscript in my courses in the Atmospheric Seiences Department at the University of Washington, and their feedback helped improve the clarity of the manuscript. Two students to whom I am particularly indebted are Craig Epifanio and
Donald Slinn. I am also grateful to James Holton for encouraging me to undertake
this project.
It is my pleasure to acknowledge the many years of support for my numerical
modeling efforts provided by the Mesoscale Dynamic Meteorology Program of
the National Science Foundation. Additional support for my atmospheric simulation studies has been provided by the Coastal Meteorology ARI of the Office of
Naval Research. Part of this book was completed while I was on sabbatical at the
Laboratoire d' Aerologie ofthe Universire Paul Sabatier in Toulouse, France , and I
thank Daniel Guedalia and Evelyne Richard for helping make that year productive
and scientifically stimulating.
As errors in the text are identified, they will be posted on the web at http://
www. atmos.washington.edu/methods.for.waves, which can be accessed directly
or via Springer's horne page at http://www.springer-ny.com. I would be most
grateful to be advised of any typographicalor other errors by electronic mail at
dale.durran@atmos.washington.edu.
Seattle, Washington
DALE R. DURRAN
Cover art: The three curves plot solutions to the linearized Rossby-adjustment
problem. The goveming equations and physical parameters for this problem are
identical to those given in Problem 12 of Chapter 3, except that the spatial domain
is -400 km x 400 km with open lateral boundaries, and the initial condition
for the free-surface displacement is h(x, t = 0) = arctan (x/20 km) . The curves
shown are plots of u(x, t = 943 s), u(x, t = 1222 s), and u(x, t = 1501 s) on an
artisically cropped portion of the sub-domain x > O.
xi
This book would not have been written without the generous assistance of several colleagues. Christopher Bretherton , in particular, provided many perceptive
answers to my endless questions. J. Ray Bates, Byron Boville, Michael Cullen,
Marcus Grote, Robert Higdon, Randall LeVeque, Christoph Schär, William Skamarock, Piotr Smolarkiewicz, and David Williamson all provided very useful
comments on individual chapters. Many students used earlier versions of this
manuscript in my courses in the Atmospheric Seiences Department at the University of Washington, and their feedback helped improve the clarity of the manuscript. Two students to whom I am particularly indebted are Craig Epifanio and
Donald Slinn. I am also grateful to James Holton for encouraging me to undertake
this project.
It is my pleasure to acknowledge the many years of support for my numerical
modeling efforts provided by the Mesoscale Dynamic Meteorology Program of
the National Science Foundation. Additional support for my atmospheric simulation studies has been provided by the Coastal Meteorology ARI of the Office of
Naval Research. Part of this book was completed while I was on sabbatical at the
Laboratoire d' Aerologie ofthe Universire Paul Sabatier in Toulouse, France , and I
thank Daniel Guedalia and Evelyne Richard for helping make that year productive
and scientifically stimulating.
As errors in the text are identified, they will be posted on the web at http://
www. atmos.washington.edu/methods.for.waves, which can be accessed directly
or via Springer's horne page at http://www.springer-ny.com. I would be most
grateful to be advised of any typographicalor other errors by electronic mail at
dale.durran@atmos.washington.edu.
Seattle, Washington
DALE R. DURRAN
Cover art: The three curves plot solutions to the linearized Rossby-adjustment
problem. The goveming equations and physical parameters for this problem are
identical to those given in Problem 12 of Chapter 3, except that the spatial domain
is -400 km x 400 km with open lateral boundaries, and the initial condition
for the free-surface displacement is h(x, t = 0) = arctan (x/20 km) . The curves
shown are plots of u(x, t = 943 s), u(x, t = 1222 s), and u(x, t = 1501 s) on an
artisically cropped portion of the sub-domain x > O.