This book is designed as an introductory course in Tropical Meteorology for the graduate or advanced level undergraduate student. 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.
Author(s): T.N. Krishnamurti, Lydia Stefanova, Vasubandhu Misra (auth.)
Series: Springer Atmospheric Sciences
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York
Year: 2013
Language: English
Pages: 424
Tags: Atmospheric Sciences; Meteorology; Oceanography; Math. Appl. in Environmental Science; Climate Change
Front Matter....Pages i-xv
The Zonally Averaged Tropical Circulation....Pages 1-15
Zonally Asymmetric Features of the Tropics....Pages 17-33
The Intertropical Convergence Zone....Pages 35-46
Heat Induced Circulation....Pages 47-74
Monsoons....Pages 75-119
Tropical Waves and Tropical Depressions....Pages 121-141
Madden Julian Oscillation....Pages 143-168
Scale Interactions....Pages 169-196
El Niño and Southern Oscillation....Pages 197-220
Diabatic Potential Vorticity Over the Global Tropics....Pages 221-231
Tropical Cloud Ensembles....Pages 233-259
Tropical Boundary Layer....Pages 261-279
Radiative Forcing....Pages 281-297
Dry and Moist Static Stability....Pages 299-315
Hurricane Observations....Pages 317-330
Genesis, Tracks, and Intensification of Hurricanes....Pages 331-359
Modeling and Forecasting of Hurricanes....Pages 361-376
Sea Breeze and Diurnal Change Over the Tropics....Pages 377-397
Tropical Squall Lines and Mesoscale Convective Systems....Pages 399-413
Back Matter....Pages 415-423
