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Informationen zum Autor THOMAS D. POTTER , PhD, is Professor of Meteorology at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, and Director of NOAA Cooperative Institute for Regional Prediction. BRADLEY R. COLMAN , ScD, is Science Operations Officer for the National Weather Association in Seattle, Washington, and holds affiliate faculty positions with the University of Washington and the University of Idaho. Both are Fellows of the American Meteorology Society. Klappentext The Handbook of Weather, Climate, and Water, is a comprehensive, two-volume review of the current state of the atmospheric and hydrologic sciences. Volume I addresses atmospheric dynamics, physical meteorology, weather systems, and measurements, while Volume II contains information on the climate system, atmospheric chemistry, hydrology, and societal impacts. Zusammenfassung Presents a two-volume review of the state of the atmospheric and hydrologic sciences. Volume I of this book addresses atmospheric dynamics, physical meteorology, weather systems, and measurements, while Volume II contains information on the climate system, atmospheric chemistry, hydrology, and societal impacts. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface PART. 1 DYNAMIC METEOROLOGY (JOSEPH TRIBBIA) 1. Overview-Atmospheric Dynamics (Joseph Tribbia) 2. Fundamental Forces and Governing Equations (Murry Salby) 3. Circulation, Vorticity, and Potential Vorticity (Paul Kushner) 4. Extratropical Atmospheric Circulations (Kyle Swanson) 5. Tropical Dynamics of the Tropical Atmosphere (Gerald Meehl) 6. Turbulence (Jackson R. Herring) 7. Predictability And Chaos (Jeffrey B. Weiss) 8 Historical Overview of Numerical Weather Prediction (Eugenia Kalnay) PART 2. THE CLIMATE SYSTEM (ROBERT DICKINSON) 9. Overview: The Climate System (Robert E. Dickinson) 10. The Ocean in Climate (Edward S. Sarachik) 11. Processes Determining Land Surface Climate (Gordon Bonan) 12. Observations of Climate and Global Change from Real-Time Measurements (David R. Easterling and Thomas R. Karl) 13. Why Should We Believe Predictions of Future Climate? (John Mitchell) 14. The El Niño-Southern Oscillation (Enso) System (Kevin Trenberth) PART 3. PHYSICAL METEOROLOGY (GREGORY TRIPOLI) 15. Physical Atmospheric Science (Gregary Tripoli) 16. Atmospheric Thermodynamics (Gregary Tripoli) 17. Thermodynamic Analysis in The Atmosphere (Amanda Adams) 18. Microphysical Processes in The Atmosphere (Robert M. Rauber) 19. Radiation in The Atmosphere: Foundations (Robert Pincus and Steven A. Ackermann) 20. Radiation in The Atmosphere: Observations and Applications (Steven A. Ackermann and Robert Pincus) 21. Clouds (A. Rangno) 22. Atmospheric Electricity and Lightning (Walter A. Lyons and Earle R. Williams) 23. Weather Modification (Harold D. Orville) 24. Atmospheric Optics (Craig F. Bohren) PART 4. WEATHER SYSTEMS (JOHN NIELSEN-GAMMON) 25. Overview for Weather Systems (John W. Nielsen-Gammon) 26. Large-Scale Atmospheric Systems (John Nielsen-Gammon) 27. Winter Weather Systems (John Gyakum) 28. Terrain-Forced Mesoscale Circulations (John Horel) 29. Severe Thunderstorms and Tornadoes (H. Brooks, et al.) 30. Tropical Precipitating systems (Edward J. Zipser) 31. Hurricanes (Frank D. Marks, Jr.) 32. Modern Weather Forecasting (Lawrence B. Dunn) PART 5. MEASUREMENTS (J. Lockhart) 33. Overview (Thomas J. Lockhart) 34 Challenges of Measurements (T. Lockart) 35. Measurement in The Atmosphere (John Hallett) 36. Instrument Development in The National Weather Services (Joseph W. Schiesl) 37. Consequences of Instrument and Siting Changes (Joseph W. Schiesl and Thomas B. Mckee) 38. Comme...
