Fundamental problems and fundamental data -- Structure of the earth -- Earth's crust -- Mantle of the Earth -- Core -- Temperature and thermal processes in the Earth -- Density, pressure, gravity and flattening in the Earth -- Elastic constants and elastic processes in the Earth -- Nonelastic processes in the Earth.
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For advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students in atmospheric, oceanic, and climate science, Atmosphere, Ocean and Climate Dynamics is an introductory textbook on the circulations of the atmosphere and ocean and their interaction, with an emphasis on global scales. It will give students a good grasp of what the atmosphere and oceans look like on the large-scale and why they look that way. The role of the oceans in climate and paleoclimate is also discussed. The combination of observations, theory and accompanying illustrative laboratory experiments sets this text apart by m.