Treats atmospheric structure and circulation

Includes films and videos on a separate website

Includes key principles of atmospheric depressions, hurricanes and tornadoes

Contains an explained description of the global oceanic circulation

Includes guiding ideas on wave formation and evolution

Explains why and how airplanes fly in spite of their huge weight

Explains 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