Dynamics of the tropical atmosphere and oceans /

"This brief introduction to the climatology of the tropics identifies a number of phenomena that characterize the spatial and temporal variability of the tropical climate. Planetary scale circulations include Hadley-like circulations, the more zonal Walker systems, westerly ducts, tropical uppe...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Webster, Peter J. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken, NJ : Royal Meteorological Society : Wiley Blackwell ; [Reading, England], 2020.
Series:Advancing weather and climate science.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Climatology of the tropical atmosphere and upper oceans
  • Hydrological and heat exchange processes
  • Fundamental processes
  • Kinematics of equatorial waves
  • Fundamental prototypes of tropical systems
  • Equatorial waves in simple flows
  • Waves in a longitudinally and vertically varying flows
  • Moist processes and large-scale tropical dynamics
  • Extratropical influence on the tropics
  • Tropical influence on extratropics : a zonally averaged perspective
  • A tropical-extratropical synergy
  • Arid and desert climates
  • Near-equatorial precipitation
  • Large-scale, low-frequency coupled ocean-atmosphere systems
  • Intraseasonal variability in the tropical atmosphere
  • Dynamics of the large-scale monsoon
  • The coupled monsoon system
  • The changing tropics
  • Some concluding remarks.