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Mesoscale weather systems are responsible for numerous natural disasters, such as damaging winds, blizzards and flash flooding. A fundamental understanding of the underlying dynamics involved in these weather systems is essential in forecasting their occurrence. This 2007 book provides a systematic approach to this subject. The opening chapters introduce the basic equations governing mesoscale weather systems and their approximations. The subsequent chapters cover four major areas of mesoscale dynamics: wave dynamics, moist convection, front dynamics and mesoscale modelling. This is an ideal book on the subject for researchers in meteorology and atmospheric science. With over 100 problems, and password-protected solutions available to instructors at www.cambridge.org/9780521808750, this book could also serve as a textbook for graduate students. Modelling projects, providing hands-on practice for building simple models of stratified fluid flow from a one-dimensional advection equation, are also described.

Mesometeorology --- Mesospheric circulation --- Mesospheric thermodynamics --- Mesoscopic phenomena (Physics) --- Mesometeorology. --- Mesospheric circulation. --- Mesospheric thermodynamics. --- Phenomena, Mesoscopic (Physics) --- Physics --- Mesosphere --- Atmospheric thermodynamics --- Circulation of the mesosphere --- Atmospheric circulation --- Meteorology --- Thermodynamics --- Circulation