Models for Tropical Climate Dynamics Waves, Clouds, and Precipitation /

• Main Author: Khouider, Boualem (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Mathematics of Planet Earth, 3
• Subjects: Mathematical physics.; Atmospheric sciences.; Computer simulation.; Climate.; Mathematical Applications in the Physical Sciences.; Atmospheric Sciences.; Simulation and Modeling.; Climate, general.

This book is a survey of the research work done by the author over the last 15 years, in collaboration with various eminent mathematicians and climate scientists on the subject of tropical convection and convectively coupled waves. In the areas of climate modelling and climate change science, tropic...

Table of Contents:

• Part I Background and Preliminaries: Chapter 1- The Governing Equations and Dry Dynamics
• Chapter 2- Moisture and moist thermodynamics
• Chapter 3- Observations of tropical climate dynamics and convectively coupled waves
• Chapter 4- Introduction to stochastic processes, Markov chains, and Monte Carlo Simulation
• Part II The Deterministic Multicloud Model: Chapter 5- Simple models for moist gravity waves
• Chapter 6- The Multicloud Model with Congestus Preconditioning
• Chapter 7- Convectively Coupled Equatorial Waves in the Multicloud Model
• Chapter 8- Convective Momentum Transport and Upscale Interactions in the MJO
• Chapter 9- Implementation of the Multicloud Model in an Aquaplanet Global Climate Model
• Part III The Stochastic Multicloud Model: SMCM: Chapter 10- Stochastic birth and death models for clouds
• Chapter 11- Implementation of the SMCM in a Global Climate Model
• Chapter 12- SMCM in CFS: Improving the tropical modes of variability
• Glossary
• References.