Air and Water

Treats atmospheric structure and circulationIncludes films and videos on a separate websiteIncludes key principles of atmospheric depressions, hurricanes and tornadoesContains an explained description of the global oceanic circulationIncludes guiding ideas on wave formation and evolutionExplains why and how airplanes fly in spite of their huge weightExplains why meteorologists cannot look beyond a ten-day forecast

René Moreau is emeritus professor at Grenoble Institute of Technology, a member of the French Academy of Sciences, and a member of the French Academy of Technology. He is a recognized specialist in the field of fluid mechanics, notably in magnetohydrodynamics, and the author of several books and more than 150 other publications on these subjects. This book was born of his desire to share his love of nature and of his wonderment of the phenomena it displays. As he says in the prologue: In essence, I hope to give the reader feeling that I am telling a beautiful story and of transmitting a sense of my awe and wonder of it all. From 1990 until 2012 he was the Series Editor of the Fluid Mechanics and Its Applications Bookseries, http://www.springer.com/series/5980