Handbook of weather, climate, and water : dynamics, climate, physical meteorology, weather systems, and measurements /
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| Μορφή: | Βιβλίο |
| Γλώσσα: | English |
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Hoboken, NJ. :
Wiley-Interscience,
c2003.
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Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
- Preface
- Dedication and acknowledgments
- Contributors
- Section 1. Dynamic meteorology / contributing editor Joseph Tribbia:
- 1.Overview. Atmospheric dynamics / Joseph Tribbia
- 2. Fundamental forces and governing equations / Murry Salby
- 3. Circulation, vorticity, and potential vorticity / Paul J. Kushner
- 4. Extratropical atmospheric circulations / Kyle Swanson
- 5. Dynamics of the tropical atmosphere / Gerald Meehl
- 6. Turbulence / Jackson R. Herring
- 7. Predictability and chaos / Jeffrey B. Weiss
- 8. Historical overview of numerical weather prediction / Eugenia Kalnay
- Section 2. Teh climate system / contributing editor Robert E. Dickinson:
- 9. Overview: the climate system / Robert E. Dickinson
- 10. The ocean in climate / Edward S. Sarackik
- 11. Processes determining land surface climate / Gordon Bonan
- 12.Observations of climate and global change from real-time measurements / David R. Easterling and Thomas R. Karl
- 13. Why should we believe predictions of future climate? / John Mitchell
- 14. The El Nino-Southern oscillation (Enso) system / Kevin Trenberth
- Section 3. Physical meteorology / contributing editor Gregory Tripoli:
- 15. Physical atmospheric science / Gregory Tripoli
- 16. Moist Thermodynamics / Amanda S. Adams
- 17. Thermodynamic analysis in the atmosphere / Amanda Adams
- 18. Microphysical processes in the atmosphere / Robert M. Rauber
- 19. Radiation in the atmosphere: foundations / Robert Pincus and Steven A. Ackermann
- 20. Radiation in the atmosphere: observations and applications / Steven A. Ackermann and Robert Pincus
- 21. The classification of clouds / Arthur L. Rangno
- 22. Atmospheric electricity and lightning / Walter A. Lyons and Earle R. Williams
- 23. Weather modification / Harold D. Orville
- 24. Atmospheric optics / Craig F. Bohren
- Section 4. Weather systems / contrributing editor John W. Nielsen-Gammon
- 25. Overview for weather systems / John W. Nielsen-Gammon.
- 26. Large-scale atmospheric systems / John W. Nielsen-Gammon
- 27. Winter weather systems / John Gyakum
- 28. Terrain-forced mesoscale circulations
- 29. Severe thunderstorms and tornadoes / H. Brooks, C. Doswell III, D. Dowell, D. Jorgenson, R. Holle, B. Johns, D. Schultz. D. Stensrud, S. Weiss, L. Wicker, and D. Zaras
- 30. Tropical precipitating systems
- 31. Hurricanes / Frank D. Marks, Jr.
- 32. Modern weather forecasting / Lawrence B. Dunn
- Section 5. Measurements / contributing editor Thomas J. Lockhart:
- 33. Atmospheric measurements / Thomas J. Lockhart
- 34. Challenges of measurements / Thomas J. Lockhart
- 35. Measurement in the atmosphere / John Hallett
- 36. Instrument development in the national weather services / Joseph W. Schiesl
- 37. Consequence of instrument and siting changes / Joseph W. Schiesl and Thomas B. Mckee
- 38. Commercial response to measurement needs: development of wind monitor series of wind sensors / Robert Young
- 39. Commercial response to measurement system design / Alan L. Hinckley
- 40. Design, calibration, and quality assurance needs of networks / Scott J. Richardson and Fred V. Brock
- 41. Data validity in the national archive / G.W. Goodge
- 42. Demands of forensic meteorology / W.H. Haggard
- 43. Surface layer in Situ or short-path measurements for electric utility operations / Robert N. Swanson
- 44. Independent auditing aspects of measurement programs / Robert A. Baxter
- 45. Regulatory approaches to quality assurance and quality control programs / Paul M. Fransoli
- 46. Measuring global temperature / John R. Christy
- 47. Satellite versis in Situ measurements at the air-sea interface / Kristina B. Katsaros
- 48. Radar technologies in support of forecasting and research / Joshua Wurman
- 49. Basic research for military applications / W.D. Bach, Jr.
- 50. Challenge of snow measurements / Nolan J. Doesken
- Index.
