[AO discussion] ug text recommendation

[Michael E McIntyre]

Dear Shafer,

May I venture to suggest one of the few places where there's an
intelligible non-mathematicians' explanation of the Rossby-wave
mechanism (showing why it's ubiquitous as well as important)?

http://www.atm.damtp.cam.ac.uk/people/mem/papers/ECMWF/

If you want to cut straight to the relevant bit, it's precisely at

http://www.atm.damtp.cam.ac.uk/people/mem/papers/ECMWF/#movie

where in case your emailer messes it up, the symbol before "movie"
is a hash.

Best wishes, Michael McIntyre

On Wed, 12 Dec 2007, Shafer Smith wrote:

> Dear colleagues,
>
> I'm looking for a recommendation for an undergraduate text on 
> weather/climate.  In particular, looking for something one notch (or 
> half notch) lower level than the new book by Marshall and Plumb. As 
> calibration, the course on which Marshall and Plumb is based at MIT has 
> a prerequisite of multivariate calculus and physics I;  I'm shooting for 
> something appropriate to students who know 1d calculus and a little 
> physics.  Ideally the course will employ rotating tank demonstrations. 
> Any comments or recommendations welcome!
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Shafer