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Desert Meteorology.
Aridity prevails over more than one third of the land area of the Earth and over a significant fraction of the oceans as well. Yet to date there has been no comprehensive reference volume or textbook dealing with the weather processes that define the character of desert areas. Desert Meteorology fil...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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West Nyack :
Cambridge University Press,
2004.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 2 The atmospheric dynamics of deserts; Some basic concepts of atmospheric structure and dynamics; Scales of atmospheric motion; Vertical structure of the atmosphere; Wind and pressure regimes of global weather; Formation of fog, cloud, and precipitation; Definition of desert; Climatological causes of aridity; Planetary-scale circulations; Orographic effects; Geographic remoteness from moisture sources; Coastal effects; Dynamic feedback mechanisms that may cause and sustain deserts.
- Vegetation
- albedo/transpiration feedbackDust-radiation feedback; Soil-moisture feedback; Upwelling
- coastal-desert feedback; Vegetation-substrate feedback; Dust-biogeochemical feedbacks; The dynamics of desert heat lows; Suggested general references for further reading; Questions for review; Problems and exercises; 3 The climates of the world deserts; General meteorological characteristics of deserts; General physiographic characteristics of deserts; General vegetative characteristics of deserts; African deserts; The Sahara Desert; The Kalahari, Namib, and Karoo Deserts.
- The Somali-Chalbi DesertThe arid area of Madagascar; North American deserts; The Chihuahuan Desert; The Great Basin Desert; The Sonoran Desert; The Mojave Desert; South American deserts; The Atacama and Peruvian Deserts; The Patagonian Desert; The Monte Desert; Other arid areas of South America; Australian deserts; Asian deserts; East Asia: the Gobi and Taklamakan Deserts; The Turkestan-area deserts; The Thar Desert; The deserts of Iran and Afghanistan; The Arabian Desert and surroundings; European arid areas; Ocean deserts; Suggested general references for further reading; General references.
- The Sahara DesertThe Namibian Desert; The Kalahari Desert; The Karoo Desert; The Sonoran Desert; The Great Basin Desert; The Mojave Desert; The Chihuahuan Desert; The Atacama Desert; The Peruvian Desert; The Patagonian and Monte Deserts (and the Puna and Chaco); The Australian Deserts; The Gobi Desert; The Taklamakan Desert; The Turkestan-area Deserts; The Thar Desert; The Iranian Desert; The Arabian Desert; The Negev Desert; The arid region of Madagascar; Questions for review; Problems and exercises; 4 Atmospheric and surface energy budgets of deserts.
- Components of the atmospheric and surface energy budgetsSome basics of solar and terrestrial radiation; The Earth-sun astronomical relationship, and atmospheric diurnal and annual cycles; Attenuation of radiation by the atmosphere; The surface radiation budget; The surface energy budget; The complete atmospheric and surface energy budget; Atmospheric and surface energy budgets of deserts; Summary of some unique characteristics of desert energy budgets; Examples of desert and non-desert energy budgets; The "oasis effect" on the energy budget.