All of the chapters (with the exception of the introductory chapter 1) contain exercises. Many of them are purely theoretical and deductive, designed to ascertain results used in the main text. Some exercises, however, are of a computational nature, such as, for example, the exercises suggested at the end of chapter 11, directly using the PEAK code. A different class of exercises may be found, for example, at the end of chapters 7, 8, 9, and 12, being more of the type of exercises as found in books on numerical methods appropriate for dealing with differential equations, and, as such, asking, for example, for consideration of numerical "toy" problems, or time-integration techniques.
Solutions to selected exercises are provided in Appendix A.16 (p. 425). Any additional solutions or comments you might find and provide to me, I would be happy to include, if you agree, here, for others to consider.
As an example of an exercise to be discussed here, any results obtained while working on exercise 5.3 (p. 113), asking for determination of rotational and divergent wind contributions on the basis of PEAK, might be worthwhile to be included and discussed here. For that matter, unraveling the subtleties hidden in exercise 3.4 (p. 73) - asking to show that the vertical component of the HPE vorticity equation (3.15) is indeed the scalar "vorticity equation" (3.74) - may be worthwhile of being included here. An overview on these subtleties is found in the solution suggested for this exercise in Appendix A.16 (item (6) on p. 428).
Further, of course, any comments on errors in stating the exercises, or their solutions, in the book I should greatly appreciate, to be found/listed on the Errata page.
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