Kinetic Atmospheres

Kinetic Atmospheres
Author: Johannes Birringer
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 342
Release: 2021-11-21
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1000476472

This book offers a sustained and deeply experiential pragmatic study of performance environments, here defined at unstable, emerging, and multisensational atmospheres, open to interactions and travels in augmented virtualities. Birringer’s writings challenge common assumptions about embodiment and the digital, exploring and refining artistic research into physical movement behavior, gesture, sensing perception, cognition, and trans-sensory hallucination. If landscapes are autobiographical, and atmospheres prompt us to enter blurred lines of a "forest knowledge," where light, shade, and darkness entangle us in foraging mediations of contaminated diversity, then such sensitization to elemental environments requires a focus on processual interaction. Provocative chapters probe various types of performance scenarios and immersive architectures of the real and the virtual. They break new ground in analyzing an extended choreographic – the building of hypersensorial scenographies that include a range of materialities as well as bodily and metabodily presences. Foregrounding his notion of kinetic atmospheres, the author intimates a technosomatic theory of dance, performance, and ritual processes, while engaging in a vivid cross-cultural dialogue with some of the leading digital and theatrical artists worldwide. This poetic meditation will be of great interest to students and scholars in theatre, performing arts as well as media arts practitioners, composers, programmers, and designers.

The Physics of Atmospheres

The Physics of Atmospheres
Author: John Theodore Houghton
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2002-03-14
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 9780521011228

Third edition of John Houghton's acclaimed textbook for advanced undergraduate/graduate courses in atmospheric science.

The Physics of Atmospheres

The Physics of Atmospheres
Author: John T. Houghton
Publisher: CUP Archive
Total Pages: 228
Release: 1977-05-26
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780521214438

Dr Houghton has revised the acclaimed first edition of The Physics of Atmospheres in order to bring this important textbook completely up-to-date. Several factors have led to vigorous growth in the atmospheric sciences, particularly the availability of powerful computers for detailed modelling, the investigation of the atmospheres of other planets, and techniques of remote sensing. The author describes the physical processes governing the structure and circulation of the atmosphere. Simple physical models are constructed by applying the principles of classical thermodynamics, radiative transfer and fluid mechanics, together with analytic and numerical techniques. These models are applied to real planetary atmospheres. This new edition is essential for undergraduates or graduate students studying atmospheric physics, climatology or meteorology, as well as planetary scientists with an interest in atmospheres.

Introduction to Circulating Atmospheres

Introduction to Circulating Atmospheres
Author: Ian N. James
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 452
Release: 1995-10-19
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 9780521429351

An advanced undergraduate text on the large scale circulation of the atmosphere.

Electron and Proton Kinetics and Dynamics in Flaring Atmospheres

Electron and Proton Kinetics and Dynamics in Flaring Atmospheres
Author: Valentina Zharkova
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 415
Release: 2012-06-25
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3527639675

This timely book presents new research results on high-energy particle physics related to solar flares, covering the theory and applications of the reconnection process in a clear and comprehensible way. It investigates particle kinetics and dynamics in flaring atmospheres and their diagnostics from spectral observations, while providing an analysis of the observation data and techniques and comparing various models. Written by an internationally acclaimed expert, this is vital reading for all solar, astro-, and plasma physicists working in the field.

Plasma Kinetics in Atmospheric Gases

Plasma Kinetics in Atmospheric Gases
Author: M. Capitelli
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 302
Release: 2013-03-09
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3662041588

Emphasis is placed on the analysis of translational, rotational, vibrational and electronically excited state kinetics, coupled to the electron Boltzmann equation.

Thermodynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans

Thermodynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans
Author: Judith A. Curry
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 493
Release: 1998-12-16
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0080519199

Atmospheric and climatological studies are becoming more and more important in day-to-day living. Winds and ocean current owe their existence to the thermodynamic imbalances that arise from the differential heating of the Earth and air by the sun. Accounting for heat exchanges with the atmosphere and ocean is essential in any predictive model of the ocean and/or atmosphere. Thermodynamic feedback processes in the atmosphere and ocean are critical to understanding the overall stability of the Earth's climate and climate change. Water and its phase changes make the thermodynamics of the atmosphere and ocean uniquely interesting and challenging.Written by leading scientists in the field, Thermodynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans incorporates all the relevant information from the varying fields of dynamics meteorology, atmospheric physics and cloud physics, into a comprehensive, self-contained guide ideal for students and researchers of atmospheric thermodynamics. At the moment, courses in atmospheric thermdynamics typically have to use one or two chapters in textbooks on dynamic meteorology, atmospheric physics or cloud physics. This book combines these topics in one text.

The Atmospheric General Circulation

The Atmospheric General Circulation
Author: John M. Wallace
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 423
Release: 2023-03-31
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1108474241

An engaging, comprehensive, richly illustrated advanced undergraduate and graduate level textbook about the atmospheric general circulation, written by leading researchers. This textbook relates fundamental theoretical principles to observations, and contains extensive exercises and online resources.

Atmospheric Processes and Systems

Atmospheric Processes and Systems
Author: Russell D. Thompson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2002-03-11
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1134695063

Atmospheric Processes and Systems presents a concise introduction to the atmosphere and the fundamentals of weather. Examining different aspects of the mass, energy and circulation systems in the atmosphere, this text provides detailed accounts of specific phenomena, including * the composition and structure of the atmosphere * energy transfers * the cycle of atmospheric water in terms of evaporation, condensation and precipitation * pressure and winds at the primary or global scale * secondary air masses and fronts * thermal differences and weather disturbances. The text includes sixteen boxed case studies, annotated further reading lists and a glossary of key terms.