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Main Title Tropical Meteorology An Introduction / [electronic resource] :
Type EBOOK
Author Krishnamurti, T.N.
Other Authors
Author Title of a Work
Stefanova, Lydia.
Misra, Vasubandhu.
Publisher Springer New York : Imprint: Springer,
Year Published 2013
Call Number QC851-999
ISBN 9781461474098
Subjects Geography ; Oceanography ; Climatic changes ; Environmental sciences
Internet Access
Description Access URL
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7409-8
Collation XV, 423 p. 224 illus., 47 illus. in color. online resource.
Notes
Due to license restrictions, this resource is available to EPA employees and authorized contractors only
Contents Notes
The Zonally Averaged Tropical Circulation -- Zonally Asymmetric Features in the Tropics -- The Intertropical Convergence Zone -- Heat Induced Circulations -- Monsoons -- Tropical Waves and Tropical Depressions -- The Madden Julian Oscillation -- Scale Interaction in the Tropics -- El Nino and Southern Oscillation -- Diabatic Potential Vorticity Over the Global Tropics -- Tropical Cloud Ensembles -- Tropical boundary layer -- Radiative Forcing -- Dry and moist static stability -- Hurricane Observations -- Genesis, Tracks and Intensification of Hurricanes -- Modeling and Forecasting of Hurricanes -- Sea Breeze and Diurnal Change Over the Tropics -- Tropical Squall Lines and Mesoscale convective systems. This book is designed as an introductory course in Tropical Meteorology targeting graduate or advanced undergraduate students. The material within can be covered in a one-semester course program. The text starts from the global scale-view of the Tropics, addressing the zonally symmetric and asymmetric features of the tropical circulation. It then goes on to progressively smaller spatial and time scales - from the El NiƱo Southern Oscillation and the Asian Monsoon, down to tropical waves, hurricanes, sea breezes, and tropical squall lines. The emphasis in most chapters is on the observational aspects of the phenomenon in question, the theories regarding its nature and maintenance, and the approaches to its numerical modeling. The concept of scale interactions is also presented as a way of gaining insight into the generation and redistribution of energy for the maintenance of oscillations of a variety of spatial and temporal scales.