E-Book Overview
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.
E-Book Content
11 Synoptic and Dynamic Climatology 0 111 0 Synoptic and Dynamic Climatology provides the first comprehensive account of the dynamical behavior 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 reference sections by chapter. It is illustrated with plates and nearly 300 figures. • • • 0111 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, planetary waves and blocking behavior, and the nature and causes of global teleconnection patterns. Part 3 discusses synoptic weather systems in the extratropics and tropics, and satellitebased climatologies of synoptic features. It also describes the methods and applications of synoptic climatology and summarizes current climatic research and its directions. The book is intended for advanced students in climatology and environmental and atmospheric sciences, as well as for professionals in the field of climate dynamics and variability. It presents both established findings about global climate and unresolved issues. Its comprehensive reference lists provide an invaluable guide to further study. Roger G. Barry is Professor of Geography and Director of the National Snow and Ice Data Center at the University of Colorado and Andrew M. Carleton is Professor of Geography at Pennsylvania State University. 0 0 11 1 1 11 Synoptic and Dynamic Climatology 0 111 Roger G. Barry and Andrew M. Carleton 0 0111 0 l or 11 ou y Ta 0 p • • GE RO LE UT D & F r n cis G a r London and New York 1 First published 2001 by Routledge 11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge 29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2002. © 2001 Roger G. Barry and Andrew M. Carleton The right of Roger G. Barry and Andrew M. Carleton to be identified as the Authors of this Work has been asserted by them in accordance with the Copyri