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This is a first draft, which is still quite rough and incomplete, of a list of books that are commonly used in atmospheric and oceanic sciences. Some are texts while others are monographs, and there is a wide range of complexity. We have tried to organize them into three broad categories that move from the fundamentals to specialized topics. Please take a look, and send suggestions and comments to brianpm@atmos.ucla.edu. We are interested in other books as well as short comments about the books already on the list. And suggestions for organization are encouraged.
General Introductions
Computing -- basics of UNIX, Linux, text editors, e-mail programs, etc.
Introduction to Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences -- undergraduate level books to introduce topics, vocabulary, and basic concepts
Fundamentals of Fluid Dynamics -- undergrad/grad level books to help get started with fluid dynamics (both kinematic and thermal)
Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
Geophysical Fluid Dynamics (Synoptic Meteorology, Large-scale Dynamics)
Dynamics -- Mesoscale, Modeling, Misc.
Climate Dynamics and Variability
Atmospheric Radiation
Atmospheric Chemistry
Space Weather & Upper Atmospheric Physics
Oceanography -- physical and chemical
Specialized Topics in Atmosci
Convection and Turbulence (Boundary layer meteorology)
Remote Sensing -- Surface and Space Based
Clouds and Microphysics
Computing
Listed below are some useful reference books on Unix. In addition to these, you may also want to check the World Wide Web for more information on getting started with the Unix operating system. We've included links to Amazon.com in case you want to get more information about these books.
Teach Yourself® UNIX® 4th Edition
Author: Kelvin Reichard
Publisher: MIS Press
Comments: This book has a good appendix of basic commands and a nice glossary. It also has a good section on the vi editor and covers some advanced topics.Recommended By: RICK
More Unix for Dummies
Author: Levine and Young
Publisher: IDG Books
Comments: Great for learning basics but it doesn’t have an appendix or glossary of commands.
Recommended By: RICK
UNIX System V: A Practical Guide (3rd Edition)
Author: Mark Sobell
Publisher: Addison-Wesley
Comments: This is a more advanced topics book but it does cover some of the basics. It also has good coverage of the vi and emacs editors.
Recommended By: RICK
Unix for the Impatient, CD-ROM Version (2nd Edition)
Author: Abrahams and Larson
Publisher: Addison-Wesley
Comments: Has a great summary of UNIX commands. Contains a mix of basic and advanced topics and it also covers the vi and emacs editors.
Recommended By: RICK
Sams Teach Yourself UNIX in 24 Hours...
Author: Dave Taylor
Publisher: Sams Publishing
Comments: Provides a good overview of the basic UNIX commands. These comments are actually based on the 2nd edition.
Recommended By: RICK
Harley Hahn's Student Guide To Unix
Author: Harley Hahn
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math; 2nd edition (May 1, 1996)
Comments: This books starts from essentially no knowledge of computers, and teaches the very basics in a clear way.
Recommended By: BRIAN M.
Running Linux, Fourth Edition
Author: Matt Welsh
Publisher: O'Reily
Comments: A very nice book about basic Linux administration, with sections devoted to e-mail, text editors, etc.
Recommended By: BRIAN M.
Introduction to Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences
Meteorology Today, 7th Edition
by C. Donald Ahrens
Publisher: Thompson International
Comments: A very fast introduction to weather for people with no background in atmospheric sciences and a few hours to kill.
Meteorology for Scientists and Engineers: A Technical Companion Book to C. Donald Ahrens' Meteorology Today
by Roland B. Stull
Publisher: Brooks Cole; 2 edition (December 30, 1999)
ISBN: 0534372147
Earth Under Seige
by Rich Turco
Publisher: Oxford University Press; (June 1997)
Comments: Parts of this book become very chatty, bordering on preachy, but it is a good basic introduction to atmospheric chemistry, climate, and air pollution. It is used sometimes as the textbook for AS2.
Fundamentals of Atmospheric Physics (International Geophysics Series, Vol 61)
by Murry L. Salby
Publisher: Academic Press; (May 1996)
ISBN: 0126151601
Atmospheric Science: An Introductory Survey
by John M. Wallace, Peter Victor Hobbs
Publisher: Academic Press; (April 1977)
ISBN: 0127329501
Thermodynamics
by Enrico Fermi (Author)
Publisher: Dover Pubns; (June 1956)
ISBN: 048660361X
An Introduction to Atmospheric Thermodynamics
by Anastasios A. Tsonis (Author)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press; 1st edition (June 2002)
ISBN: 0521796768
Atmospheric Thermodynamics
by Craig F. Bohren, Bruce A. Albrecht
Publisher: Oxford University Press; (February 1998)
ISBN: 0195099044
Statistical Analysis in Climate Research
by Hans von Storch (Author), Francis W. Zwiers (Author)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press; Reprint edition (March 2002)
ISBN: 0521012309
Fundamentals of Fluid Dynamics
Physical Fluid Dynamics
Author: D.J. Tritton
Publisher: Oxford University Press; 2nd edition (November 1988)
Comments: This is an excellent introduction to fluid dynamics in general, and it has quite a lot of content focused on geophysical flows. You should read this book as much as possible before and during your first year of grad school; it will help take away some of the physical misunderstandings that can crop up in the dynamics courses.
Recommended By: BRIAN M. (recommended to him by Bjorn S.)
An Introduction to Fluid Dynamics
Author: G.K. Batchelor
Publisher: Cambridge University Press; (August 1973)
IBSN: 0521098173
Comments: Gets a bit into the nitty gritty, so it's a bit harder than Tritton, but supposedly a very nice introduction.
Recommended By: Various Dynamics People
Geophysical Fluid Dynamics (Synoptic Meteorology, Large-scale Dynamics)
An Introduction to Dynamic Meteorology
by James R. Holton
Publisher: Academic Press; 3rd edition (April 1992)
ISBN: 012354355X
Comments: Most programs use this as the text for the first year dynamics course. Covers most topics for GFD, but definitely with a bias toward synoptic meteorology. The 4th Edition has also been released.
Recommended By: Every other graduate program in ATMOSCI
Atmosphere-Ocean Dynamics (International Geophysics Series)
by Adrian E. Gill
Publisher: Academic Press; (November 1982)
ISBN: 0122835220
Comments: Whatever Holton lacks in terms of oceanography, Gill makes up. This one is mostly for advanced grad students.
Recommended By: Xin Q.
Geophysical Fluid Dynamics
by Joseph Pedlosky
Publisher: Springer Verlag; 2nd edition (January 23, 1998)
ISBN: 0387963871
Comments: All the details are included, making this book very dense and fairly difficult. This one is for post docs and profs.
Recommended By: Xin Q.
Synoptic-Dynamic Meteorology in Midlatitudes: Observations and Theory of Weather Systems
by Howard B. Bluestein
Publisher: Oxford University Press; (January 1993)
ISBN: 019506268X
Synoptic-Dynamic Meteorology in Midlatitudes: Principles of Kinematics and Dynamics, Vol. 1
by Howard B. Bluestein
Publisher: Oxford University Press; (February 1997)
ISBN: 0195062671
Dynamics -- Mesoscale, Modeling, Misc.
Storm and Cloud Dynamics (International Geophysics Series, Vol 44)
by William R. Cotton, Richard A. Anthes
Publisher: Academic Press; Reprint edition (September 1992)
ISBN: 0121925315
Fundamentals of Atmospheric Modeling
by Mark Z. Jacobson (Author)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press; 1st edition (December 1998)
ISBN: 0521631432
Mesoscale Meteorological Modeling
by Roger A., Sr Pielke
Publisher: Academic Press; 2nd edition (December 15, 2001)
ISBN: 0125547668
Climate Dynamics and Variability
Physics of Climate
by Abraham H. Oort, Jose Pinto Peixoto
Publisher: Springer Verlag; (October 1992)
ISBN: 0883187124
Comments: This is a very nice overview of the climate system, with lots of emphasis on the underlying physics. Gets a little dense in some parts, but it's worth it.
Recommended By: BRIAN M.
Global Physical Climatology (International Geophysics, Vol 56)
by Dennis L. Hartmann
Publisher: Academic Press; (June 1994)
ISBN: 0123285305
Convection and Turbulence (Boundary layer meteorology)
Introduction to Boundary Layer Meteorology
by Roland B. Stull
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers; (July 1988)
ISBN: 9027727694
The Atmospheric Boundary Layer
by J. R. Garratt (Author)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press; (June 1995)
ISBN: 0521467454
Atmospheric Convection
by Kerry Emanuel
Publisher: Oxford University Press; (February 1994)
ISBN: 0195066308
Atmospheric Radiation
Coming soon if an atmospheric radiator can help us out.
Atmospheric Chemistry
Introduction to Atmospheric Chemistry
by Daniel J. Jacob
Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr; (December 21, 1999)
ISBN: 0691001855
Introduction to Atmospheric Chemistry
by Peter V. Hobbs (Author)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press; (February 15, 2001)
ISBN: 0521771439
Basic Physical Chemistry for the Atmospheric Sciences
by Peter Victor Hobbs (Author)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press; (January 1995)
ASIN: 0521479339
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics : From Air Pollution to Climate Change
by John H. Seinfeld (Author), Spyros N. Pandis (Author)
Publisher: Wiley-Interscience; (October 1997)
ISBN: 0471178160
Chemistry of the Upper and Lower Atmosphere: Theory, Experiments, and Applications
by Barbara J. Finlayson-Pitts, James N. Pitts
Publisher: Academic Press; (November 1999)
ISBN: 012257060X
Clouds and Microphysics
A Short Course in Cloud Physics
by R. R. Rogers, M. K. Yau
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann; 3rd edition (June 1989)
ISBN: 0750632151
Microphysics of Clouds and Precipitation (Atmospheric and Oceanographic Sciences Library , Vol 18)
by Hans R. Pruppacher, James D. Klett
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers; 2nd Revision edition (December 1996)
ISBN: 079234409X
Cloud Dynamics (International Geophysics, Vol 53)
by Robert A., Jr. Houze
Publisher: Academic Press; (October 1999)
ASIN: 0123568803
Space Weather & Upper Atmospheric Physics
Introduction to Space Physics
by Margaret G. Kivelson (Editor), Christopher T. Russell (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press; 1st edition (January 15, 1995)
ISBN: 0521457149
Oceanography
Coming soon, if an oceanographer can help us out.
Remote Sensing
Coming soon, if a remote sensor can help us out.
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