Thermal Physics of the Atmosphere -- Contents -- Preface -- Useful data -- 1 Ideal gases -- 1.1 THERMODYNAMIC VARIABLES -- 1.2 MICROSCOPIC VIEWPOINT -- 1.3 IDEAL GAS MIXTURES -- PROBLEMS -- 2 The first and second laws -- 2.1 WORK -- 2.2 ENERGY CONSERVATION: THE FIRST LAW -- 2.3 ENTROPY AND THE SECOND LAW -- 2.4 BOLTZMANN ENTROPY -- 2.5 ENTROPY AND PROBABILITY: A MACROSCOPIC EXAMPLE -- 2.6 ENTROPY AND PROBABILITY: A STOCHASTIC EXAMPLE -- PROBLEMS -- 3 General applications -- 3.1 THERMODYNAMIC POTENTIALS -- 3.2 HEAT CAPACITY -- 3.3 PROPERTIES OF IDEAL GASES -- 3.4 VAN DER WAALS' GASES -- 3.5 OPEN SYSTEMS: ENTHALPY FLUX -- 3.6 LATENT HEAT -- 3.7 TURBULENT ENERGY FLUXES -- 3.8 POTENTIAL TEMPERATURE -- PROBLEMS -- 4 The atmosphere under gravity -- 4.1 GEOPOTENTIAL -- 4.2 HYDROSTATIC BALANCE -- 4.3 ADIABATIC LAPSE RATE -- 4.4 BUOYANCY -- 4.5 DRY STATIC ENERGY AND BERNOULLI FUNCTION -- 4.6 STATISTICAL MECHANICS -- PROBLEMS -- 5 Water in the atmosphere -- 5.1 THE CLAUSIUS-CLAPEYRON EQUATION -- 5.2 CALCULATION OF SATURATED VAPOUR PRESSURE -- 5.3 HUMIDITY VARIABLES -- 5.4 MOIST STATIC ENERGY -- PROBLEMS -- 6 Vertical structure of the moist atmosphere -- 6.1 ADIABATIC LAPSE RATE FOR MOIST AIR -- 6.2 ENTROPY BUDGET FOR SATURATED AIR -- 6.3 FINITE AMPLITUDE INSTABILITIES -- 6.4 VERTICAL STRUCTURE IN THERMODYNAMIC DIAGRAMS -- 6.5 CONVECTIVE AVAILABLE POTENTIAL ENERGY -- 7 Cloud drops -- 7.1 HOMOGENEOUS NUCLEATION: THE KELVIN EFFECT -- 7.2 HETEROGENEOUS NUCLEATION: THE RAOULT EFFECT -- 7.3 KÖHLER THEORY -- 7.4 CHARGE-ENHANCED NUCLEATION -- 7.5 DROPLET GROWTH -- PROBLEMS -- 8 Mixtures and solutions -- 8.1 CHEMICAL POTENTIALS -- 8.2 IDEAL GAS MIXTURES AND IDEAL SOLUTIONS -- 8.3 RAOULT'S LAW REVISITED -- 8.4 BOILING AND FREEZING OF SOLUTIONS -- PROBLEMS -- 9 Thermal radiation -- 9.1 THERMAL RADIATION AND KIRCHHOFF'S LAW.

9.2 THE STEFAN-BOLTZMANN AND WIEN DISPLACEMENT LAWS -- 9.3 GLOBAL ENERGY BUDGET AND THE GREENHOUSE EFFECT -- 9.4 HORIZONTAL VARIATIONS -- 9.5 RADIATIVE INTENSITY -- 9.6 RADIATIVE TRANSFER -- 9.7 RADIATIVE-CONVECTIVE EQUILIBRIUM -- 9.8 THERMODYNAMICS OF A PHOTON GAS -- 9.9 DERIVATION OF THE PLANCK LAW -- PROBLEMS -- 10 Non-equilibrium processes -- 10.1 ENERGETICS OF MOTION -- 10.2 DIABATIC EFFECTS AND THE SECOND LAW -- 10.3 THERMODYNAMICS OF FORCED DISSIPATIVE SYSTEMS -- 10.4 CLIMATE THERMODYNAMICS -- PROBLEMS -- Appendix A: Functions of several variables -- Appendix B: Exergy and thermodynamic stability -- Appendix C: Thermodynamic diagrams -- Appendix D: Relationship between energy density and energy flux -- Index.