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Coastal meteorology encompasses a considerable range of small- and large-scale weather events which have shared underlying theoretical and practical principles. This book covers the foundational principles of coastal weather events and illustrates them through application to real-world examples. A wide range of topics have been covered, from sea/land breeze circulations to low-level coastal jets and the interaction fronts of cyclones with coastal features. The book represents an essential resource for upper division undergraduates, graduate students, and researchers interested in coastal meteorology, oceanography, climatology, and atmospheric science. Readers will gain a solid conceptual understanding of meteorological phenomena that can be applied to coastal weather across the world and used to better predict coastal weather variations. This capacity to predict variations is necessary for mitigating climate change risk in coastal areas, which is an issue of current and pressing importance.
List of contents
List of illustrations; 1. Introduction; 2. Air-Land-Sea interaction; 3. Thermal forcing of coastal circulations; 4. Topographic forcing of coastal circulations; 5. Sea-Land Breeze circulations; 6. Low-level coastal jets; 7. Coastally trapped wind reversals; 8. Lee Troughs and Eddies; 9. Gap winds and Drainage flows; 10. Coastal fronts and cold air damming; 11. Coastal effects on landfalling fronts and Cyclones; Bibliography; Index.
About the author
Dr. Wendell Nuss is a Professor of Meteorology at the Naval Postgraduate School, California, where he has taught coastal meteorology for forty years and led research on coastally trapped disturbances, coastal jets, and other coastal weather. He has contributed extensively to coastal weather forecast training, through the development of online training materials with the Cooperative Program for Operational Meteorological Education and Training (COMET) and workshops for US and other weather services.
