[Proflist] Best texts for thermo, physical and mesoscale?

[Alan Robock]

Dear Jose,

I don't know, and if you find out let me know.  I teach Thermo and used the
new Wallace and Hobbs last year, supplemented by the UCAR COMET module on
skew-T diagrams.  However the thermo section was rather skimpy.  I liked
Bohren and Albrecht when I used it, but the students did not.  There is a new
edition of Tsonis, which I want to see, but the old one was too much physics,
without using the traditional meteorology notation, and not accessible to
students.

This would be a good question for proflist, to which I also copy this.

Alan

Alan Robock, Professor II
  Director, Meteorology Undergraduate Program
  Associate Director, Center for Environmental Prediction
Department of Environmental Sciences        Phone: +1-732-932-9800 x6222
Rutgers University                                  Fax: +1-732-932-8644
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On Mon, August 27, 2007 12:48 pm, Jose D. Fuentes wrote:
> Hi Alan,
>
> I hope you had a restful summer.
>
> I like to ask a question.  What are the best *textbooks* you would
> recommend for:
> 	Thermodynamics of the Atmosphere
> 	Physical Meteorology
> 	Mesoscale Meteorology?
>
> Here the semester semester starts this Tuesday.  I am expecting a
> busy semester, with two senior-level courses to teach!
>
> I hope all is going well with you.
>
> Jose D Fuentes
>
>


Alan

Alan Robock, Professor II
  Director, Meteorology Undergraduate Program
  Associate Director, Center for Environmental Prediction
Department of Environmental Sciences        Phone: +1-732-932-9800 x6222
Rutgers University                                  Fax: +1-732-932-8644
14 College Farm Road                   E-mail: robock at envsci.rutgers.edu
New Brunswick, NJ 08901-8551  USA      http://envsci.rutgers.edu/~robock