Modern Climatology

✍ Scribed by S. Wang, R. Gillies

• Publisher: Intech
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 398
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

00 preface_Modern Climatology......Page 1
Part 1_Synoptic Climatology......Page 13
01 Southern Hemisphere Tropical
Cyclone Climatology......Page 15
02 Indian Monsoon Depression:
Climatology and Variability......Page 57
03 Characteristics of the Quasi-16 Day Wave
in the Mesosphere and Lower Thermosphere
(MLT): A Review Over an Equatorial Station
Thumba (8.5oN, 76.5oE)......Page 85
04 Thunderstorm and Lightning
Climatology of Australia......Page 97
Part 2_Regional Climatology......Page 133
05 The South American Monsoon System:
Climatology and Variability......Page 135
06 Climatology of the U.S. Inter-Mountain West......Page 165
07 Climatology of the Northern-Central
Adriatic Sea......Page 189
08 Spatial and Temporal Variability of Sea Surface
Temperature in the Yellow Sea and East China
Sea over the Past 141 Years......Page 225
Part 3_The Changing Climate......Page 247
09 Paleotempestology: Reconstructing Atlantic
Tropical Cyclone Tracks in the Pre-HURDAT Era......Page 249
10 Cenozoic Climatic Record for Monsoonal
Rainfall over the Indian Region......Page 269
11 Climate Change:
Is It More Predictable Than We Think?......Page 301
Part 4_Applied Climatology......Page 321
12 On the Relationship Between Boundary Layer
Convergence and Cloud-to-Ground Lightning......Page 323
13 Synthesizing High-Resolution Climatological
Wind Fields with a Mesoscale Atmospheric
Boundary Layer Model Forced with Local
Weather Observations......Page 339
14 Rainfall Prediction Using Teleconnection
Patterns Through the Application of
Artificial Neural Networks......Page 373