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>Be a physics & math grad
>Watching the weather channel
>Realize I have no idea how the Earth actually works

Since there an unusually high number of geo majors on this board, can someone recommend a few textbooks to rigorously learn Geoscience, Geophysics, Atmosphere/Ocean/Climate Dynamics, and Meteorology to fix this deficiency? Should I learn a little geology or physical geography before diving into the actual science?

>> No.7059980

Understanding Earth is a really good entry-level textbook.

>> No.7059988
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7059988

>Claims to be in graduate school
>Have time to study other things

>> No.7060005

>>7059988
Grad as in having a BS degree.

>> No.7060009

>>7060005
more like a degree in BS amirite ahahahaha rektem scrub

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7061163

>>7059980
>Lots of pictures, no equations

Anything more mathematical?

>> No.7061638

Fowler "The Solid Earth: An Introduction to Global Geophysics"
John Wallace, Peter Victor Hobbs "Atmospheric science: an introductory survey"
John Marshall, Alan Plumb "Atmosphere, Ocean and Climate Dynamics: An Introductory Text"
Turcotte, Schubert "Geodynamics"

>> No.7062173

>>7061163
You need to get your head around thermodynamics and waves

>> No.7063716

>>7062173
The physics isn't a problem

>> No.7063737

>>7061163
magnetohydrodynamics, CFD. the earth is a giant fluid ball, both outside, and in. even the rocks are modeled as fluids when you are working with geologic timescales.

>> No.7063785

>>7059968
Sciences regarding climate and the earth in general are very complicated and very niche "those meteorologists that you make fun of are actually brilliant mathematicians"

There's really no point in learning that unless you're thinking about joining a weather crew. "Where you'll only make real money working for a major new station or agricultural business"

>> No.7064512

>>7063785
>Sciences regarding climate and the earth in general are very complicated and very niche "those meteorologists that you make fun of are actually brilliant mathematicians"

You say that like it's a bad thing

>There's really no point in learning that

Seeing "nontrivial interesting applications of advanced math and physics" is all the motivation I need.

>> No.7064559
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7064559

Why are the clouds like this?

>> No.7064687

>>7059968
Geophysics is an immensely interesting field, anyone with some working knowledge of math will find the applications of it fantastic. A great book for introduction into the field is The Solid Earth: An introduction to global geophysics.

>> No.7065652

>>7059968
Geology is an actual science, man.
:(

>> No.7065655

ask me anything about science. i'll answer when I wake up tomorrow. posting from a lucid dream.

>> No.7065658

>>7065655
Is this real?

>> No.7065814

>>7064559
Because fluid dynamics.

>> No.7065820

>>7065655
What happens if you take a solenoid and wrap it as a solenoid? so like a coil made of coils (a toroid but in a helix)

>> No.7065833

>>7064559
Convection.

>> No.7066151

>>7065820
you get a stellarator, a toroidal magnetic confinement fusion device without the shitty ExB drift that you get in tokamaks

>> No.7066276

>>7065658
how can it be real if our thoughts aren't real?

>> No.7066313

Planetary Surface Processes by Melosh is a really good starting point if you've got a math/physics background. It's really a planetary science text but surface processes on other terrestrial planets are fundamentally similar to those on Earth. Atmospheric Science: an Introductory Survey by Wallace and Hobbs is pretty good and very accessible if you're interested in that sort of stuff. For geophysics I'd recommend Geodynamics by Turcotte and Schubert, though that's grad-level stuff so I don't know how accessible it would be for you.

>> No.7066316

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>> No.7067564

>>7065652
Rock collecting isn't a science

>> No.7067658

>>7060009
good one

>> No.7067662

>>7060009
>rektem
damn near killed em

>> No.7068131

>>7067564

>Minerals Marie.

>> No.7068399

>>7061638
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