Synoptic and Dynamic Climatology,9780415031165

Synoptic and Dynamic Climatology

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Edition: 1st
ISBN13: 9780415031165
ISBN10: 0415031168
Format: Nonspecific Binding
Pub. Date: 2001-07-18
Publisher(s): Routledge
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Summary

This book provides the first comprehensive account of the dynamical behaviour and mechanisms of the global climate system and its components, together with a modern survey of synoptic-scale weather systems in the tropics and extratropics.

Table of Contents

List of plates
viii
Preface ix
Acknowledgments xi
PART 1 The climate system and its study 1(106)
Introduction
3(13)
The global climate system
3(7)
Time and space scales of weather and climate processes
10(3)
Dynamic and synoptic climatology
13(1)
The structure of the book
14(2)
Climate data and their analysis
16(91)
Synoptic meteorological data
16(1)
Remotely sensed data
17(14)
Climate variables and their statistical description
31(9)
Analytical tools for spatial data
40(23)
Time series
63(15)
Empirical orthogonal function analysis, clustering, and classification
78(29)
Eulerian and Lagrangian methods
84(23)
PART 2 Dynamic climatology 107(332)
Global climate and the general circulation
109(154)
Planetary controls
109(4)
Basic controls of the atmospheric circulation and its maintenance
113(30)
Circulation cells
143(10)
The Earth's geography
153(2)
Climate system feedbacks
155(6)
General circulation models
161(5)
The global circulation - description
166(43)
Centers of action
209(14)
Global climatic features
223(12)
Air masses
235(28)
Potential vorticity
240(23)
Large-scale circulation and climatic characteristics
263(95)
Time-averaged circulation
263(7)
Jetstreams
270(8)
Planetary waves
278(24)
Zonal index
302(6)
Zonal and blocking flow modes
308(5)
Blocking mechanisms
313(9)
Low-frequency circulation variability and persistence
322(10)
Intraseasonal oscillations
332(26)
Spectral harmonic functions
340(1)
Eliassen-Palm flux
341(1)
Normal modes
342(16)
Global teleconnections
358(81)
Pressure oscillations and teleconnection patterns
358(3)
The Southern Oscillation and El Nino
361(15)
ENSO mechanisms
376(8)
Teleconnections with ENSO
384(12)
Extratropical teleconnection patterns
396(1)
North Atlantic Oscillation
397(6)
North Pacific Oscillation
403(1)
Zonally symmetric oscillations
404(4)
The southern hemisphere
408(2)
Tropical-extratropical teleconnections
410(4)
Teleconnections and synoptic-scale activity
414(1)
Time-scale aspects of teleconnections
414(4)
Interannual to interdecadal oscillations
418(21)
Partitioning between equatorially symmetric and antisymmetric components
424(15)
PART 3 Synoptic climatology 439(167)
Synoptic systems
441(106)
Early studies of extratropical systems
441(1)
Climatology of cyclones and anticyclone
442(8)
Development of cyclones
450(15)
Storm tracks
465(11)
Satellite-based climatologies of synoptic features
476(30)
Synoptic-scale systems in the tropics
506(41)
The Q-vector formulation
524(23)
Synoptic climatology and its applications
547(57)
Roger G. Barry
Allen H. Perry
Synoptic pattern classification
547(2)
Subjective typing procedures
549(2)
Objective typing procedures
551(10)
Principal catalogs and their uses
561(13)
Regional applications
574(4)
Analogs
578(1)
Seasonal structure
578(9)
Climatic trends
587(2)
Environmental applications
589(15)
Retrospect and prospect
604(2)
Further reading 606(5)
Index 611

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