Synoptic and Dynamic Climatology

Synoptic and Dynamic Climatology provides the first comprehensive account of the dynamical behaviour and mechanisms of the global climate system and its components, together with a modern survey of synoptic-scale weather systems in the tropics and extratropics, and of the methods and applications of synoptic climate classification. It is unrivalled in the scope and detail of its contents. The work is thoroughly up to date, with extensive bibliographies by chapter. It is illustrated with nearly 300 figures and plates.*Part 1 provides an introduction to the global climate system and the space-time scales of weather and climate processes, followed by a chapter on climate data and their analysis*Part 2 describes and explains the characteristics of the general circulation of the global atmosphere and includes the nature and causes of global teleconnection patterns*Part 3 discusses synoptic weather systems in the extratropics and tropics and satellite-based climatologies of synoptic features. It also describes the applications of synoptic climatology and summarises current climatic research and its directions.

Politics & Social Sciences

Barry, Roger G.

Carleton, Andrew M.

Social Sciences

Routledge

This is a monograph on satellite-based climatology and the remote sensing techniques that are used to extract climatologically-useful information. It is not intended to be a textbook in remote sensing or a text in climatology. Instead, it focuses on the overlap between these two very large bodies of knowledge. It is assumed that the reader is at least generally familiar with the basic concepts and processes giving rise to weather and climate. At the same time, he or she will not find intricate derivations of radiation transfer theory, or an orbiter-by-orbiter account of the U.S. meteorological satellite programme, or a highly detailed discussion of the inception, development and decay of E1 Nino Southern Oscillation events. While these subjects are mentioned and even discussed in context, they do not constitute the key themes emphasized in this climate research monograph. The themes involve primarily the contributions of satellite data to the development of climate theory. These topics include the role of clouds in the Earth radiation budget and in climate, the role of the Earth's surface characteristics in climate and its variations, such as desertification and drought, and the signature of climate teleconnections in clouds and cloud systems, precipation and water vapour patterns. A theme that cuts across several of these foci involves the role of satellites in monitoring the climate system and providing "baseline" climatologies within which the impact of humans might be more easily discerned. The latter is increasingly part of the Global Change initiative. Examples of the ways in which satellite data have played, and continue to play a major role in the monitoring of the climate system for anthropogenic impacts are in issues such as stratospheric ozone depletion, global warming, and deforestation.

Satellite Remote Sensing in Climatology

Science & Math

Earth Sciences

CRC-Press

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