An introduction to the global circulation of the atmosphere

Perpetual motion

What makes it go

What goes on

The rules of the game

Go with the flow

Up moist, down dry

Heat where it's hot, and cool where it's cold

A taxonomy of eddies

What the eddies do

A fluid dynamical commotion

The future of the circulation

Vectors, vector calculus, and coordinate systems

Dimensional analysis, scale analysis, and similarity theories

Why is the dissipation rate positive?

Vertical coordinate transformations

The moist adiabatic lapse rate

Eddy kinetic energy and zonal kinetic energy

Spherical harmonics.