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Record Nr.

UNINA9910437941503321

Autore

Krishnamurti T.N

Titolo

Tropical Meteorology : An Introduction / / by T.N. Krishnamurti, Lydia Stefanova, Vasubandhu Misra

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY : , : Springer New York : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2013

ISBN

1-4614-7409-4

Edizione

[1st ed. 2013.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (427 p.)

Collana

Springer Atmospheric Sciences, , 2194-5217

Disciplina

551.6913

Soggetti

Atmospheric sciences

Meteorology

Oceanography

Environmental sciences

Climate change

Atmospheric Sciences

Math. Appl. in Environmental Science

Climate Change

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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 Niño 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.