SOME BASIC IDEAS: Planetary atmospheres -- Equilibrium temperatures -- Hydrostatic equation -- Adiabatic lapse rate -- Sandstrom's theorem -- A RADIATIVE EQUILIBRIUM MODEL: Black-body radiation -- Absorption and emission -- Radiative equilibrium in a grey atmosphere -- Radiative time constants -- The greenhouse effect -- THERMODYNAMICS: Entropy of dry air -- Vertical motion of saturated air -- The tephigram -- Total potential energy of an air column -- Available potential energy -- Zonal and eddy energy -- MORE COMPLEX RADIATION TRANSFER: Solar radiation: its modification by scattering -- Absorption of solar radiation by ozone -- Absorption by single lines -- Transmission of an atmospheric path -- The integral equation of transfer -- Integration over frequency -- Heating rate due to radiative processes -- Cooling by carbon dioxide emission from upper stratosphere and lower mesosphere -- Band models -- Continuum absoprtion -- Global radiation budget -- THE MIDDLE AND UPPER ATMOSPHERES: Temperature structure -- Diffusive separation -- The escape of hydrogen -- The energy balance of the thermosphere -- Photochemical processes -- Breakdown of thermodynamic equilibrium -- CLOUDS: Cloud formation -- The growth of cloud particles -- The radiative properties of clouds -- Radiative transfer in clouds -- DYNAMICS: Total and partial derivatives -- Equations of motion -- The geostrophic approximation -- Cyclostrophic motion -- Surfaces of constant pressure -- The thermal wind equation -- the equation of consinuity -- and ATMOSPHERIC WAVES: Sound waves -- Gravtiy waves -- Rossbyu waves -- The vorticity equation -- Three dimensional Rossby-type waves -- TURBULENCE: The Reynolds number -- Reynolds stress -- Ekman's solution -- The mixing-length hypothesis -- Ekman pumping -- The spectrum of atmospheric turbulence -- problems -- THE GENERAL CIRCULATION: Laboratory experiments -- A symmetric circulation -- Inertial instability -- Barotropic Instability -- Baroclinic instabiltiy -- Sloping convection -- Energy transport -- Transport of angular momentum -- The general circulation of the middle atmosphere -- NUMERICAL MODELLING: A barotropic model -- Baroclinic models -- Primitive equation models -- Inclusion of orography -- Convection -- Moist processes -- Radiation transfer -- Inclusion of clouds -- Sub grid scale processes -- Transfer across the surface -- Froecasting models -- Other models -- GLOBAL OBSERVATION: What observations are required? -- Convectional observations -- Remote sounding from satellites -- Remote sounding of atmospheric temperature -- Remote measurements of composition -- Other remote sounding observations -- Observations from remote platforms -- Achieving global coverage -- ATMOSPHERIC PREDICTABILITY AND CLIMATE CHANGE: Short-term predictability -- Variations of climate -- Atmospheric feedback processes -- Different kinds of predictability -- Jupiter's Great Red Spot -- The challenge of climate research.
