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READINGS BOOK REVIEWS ATMOSPHERE, CLOUDS, AND CLIMATE David Randall, 2012, 288 pp., $27.95, paperbound, Princeton University Press, ISBN 978-0-691-14735-0 or those of us who, perversely, spend our days s - tufd oy r many fundamental atmospheric processes. One ing climate and then go home and spend our leisu cl re ea r strength of this book is that its arguments are Ftime reading about climate, there is no doubt t co hn as ti stently presented in terms of energy and mass, David RandallA ’st mosphere, Clouds, and Climate is a for which the science or engineering student should great read. It is a whirlwind tour of grad-school th oa pv ic e d s, eveloped some understanding and intuition. with sprinklings of historical context, related field In sc , a on rd p orating moist thermodynamics can get messy, advanced topics that keep the pages turning. This bb ou ot i k s dealt with deftly here, for example by using is part of thP e rinceton Primers in Cli- moist static energy instead of introducing the arcane mate, though, so we are not the intende “t de mperatures” that have perplexed more than just audience. Instead, this book http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society American Meteorological Society

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BOOK REVIEWS ATMOSPHERE, CLOUDS, AND CLIMATE David Randall, 2012, 288 pp., $27.95, paperbound, Princeton University Press, ISBN 978-0-691-14735-0 or those of us who, perversely, spend our days s - tufd oy r many fundamental atmospheric processes. One ing climate and then go home and spend our leisu cl re ea r strength of this book is that its arguments are Ftime reading about climate, there is no doubt t co hn as ti stently presented in terms of energy and mass, David RandallA ’st mosphere, Clouds, and Climate is a for which the science or engineering student should great read. It is a whirlwind tour of grad-school th oa pv ic e d s, eveloped some understanding and intuition. with sprinklings of historical context, related field In sc , a on rd p orating moist thermodynamics can get messy, advanced topics that keep the pages turning. This bb ou ot i k s dealt with deftly here, for example by using is part of thP e rinceton Primers in Cli- moist static energy instead of introducing the arcane mate, though, so we are not the intende “t de mperatures” that have perplexed more than just audience. Instead, this book

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