The characters of this book are equations, concepts, and models, all of them related to the atmosphere. These characters act as to provide and to illuminate a more or less complete picture of the atmosphere.
While the index of the book is an attempt to summarize the locations where these "characters" appear throughout the "plot" I may add an additional list of pointers at this present location when it turns out that the book's index may not be detailed enough to locate items of interest.
A collection of equations may be viewed as forming a model of the atmosphere. These equations originate from the physical contents of the model. These contents summarize the model's physical concept that lays out the route taken to identify the equations comprising the model. Depending on the complexity of the model, that route may be rather short and straightforward to travel, or rather, long and difficult to master.
Several models - of a more or less complete, but in all cases of a fundamental nature - are developed in terms of partial differential equations in the first part of the book. In their development it is demonstrated that these models may be viewed as a succession of models - as any given model results from simplifying its more complex ancestor. Some of these continuous models are developed in numerical form in the second part of the book.
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