Title Details: | |
The Atmosphere in Hydrostatic Equilibrium |
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Other Titles: |
Gravity and Amospheric Pressure |
Authors: |
Haldoupis, Christos |
Reviewer: |
Christakis, Nikolaos |
Subject: | NATURAL SCIENCES AND AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES > EARTH SCIENCES NATURAL SCIENCES AND AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES > EARTH SCIENCES > METEOROLOGY |
Keywords: |
Amospheric Physics
Solar And Terrestrial Radiation Atmospheric Electricity Atmospheric Thermodynamics Cloud Physics Atmospheric Dynamics Ionospheric Physics |
Description: | |
Abstract: |
The reason for the presence of the atmosphere is the earth’s gravitational field. In this chapter, the atmospheric motions are ignored and the atmosphere is assumed to be in static equilibrium, which means that the force of gravity is balanced by the vertical pressure gradient force. First, the hydrostatic equation of the atmosphere is derived and then applied to investigate the variations with altitude of various atmospheric parameters, e.g., pressure, density, number density. Also studied here is the gravitational separation of heavy from light air constituents and the role of molecular diffusion.
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Table of Contents: |
Chapter 2. The Atmosphere in Hydrostatic equilibrium (18 pages)
2.1. The Earth's Field of Gravity 2.1.1. Effective gravity 2.1.2. Geopotential and escape velocity 2.2. Hydrostatic Equation of the Atmosphere 2.2.1. Homogeneous atmosphere and scale height 2.2.2. Isothermal atmosphere 2.2.3. Polytropic atmosphere 2.2.4. General form of hydrostatic equation 2.2.5. Calculations of atmospheric mass 2.3. Gravitational Separation and Molecular Diffusion 2.3.1. Estimation of molecular diffusion time Chapter 2. Exercises Chapter 2. Bibliography |
Technical Editors: |
Gkikopoulos, Nikolaos |
Type: |
Chapter |
Creation Date: | 2015 |
Item Details: | |
License: |
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/gr |
Handle | http://hdl.handle.net/11419/3275 |
Bibliographic Reference: | Haldoupis, C. (2015). The Atmosphere in Hydrostatic Equilibrium [Chapter]. In Haldoupis, C. 2015. Introduction to Atmospheric Physics [Undergraduate textbook]. Kallipos, Open Academic Editions. https://hdl.handle.net/11419/3275 |
Language: |
Greek |
Is Part of: |
Introduction to Atmospheric Physics |
Number of pages |
18 |
Publication Origin: |
Kallipos, Open Academic Editions |