Includes bibliographical references (pages 250-269) and index.
Contents:
Observations of exoplanetary atmospheres : a theorist's review of techniques in astronomy -- Introduction to radiative transfer -- The two-stream approximation of radiative transfer -- Temperature-pressure profiles -- Atmospheric opacities : how to use a line list -- Introduction to atmospheric chemistry -- A hierarchy of atmospheric chemistries -- Introduction to fluid dynamics -- Deriving the governing equations of fluid dynamics -- The shallow water system : a fluid dynamics lab on paper -- The de Laval nozzle and shocks -- Convection, turbulence and fluid instabilities -- Atmospheric escape -- Outstanding problems of exoplanetary atmospheres.
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