Regionalizing global climate variations : a study of the Southeastern US regional climate /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Misra, Vasubandhu, 1970-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam, Netherlands : Elsevier, 2020.
Temas:
Climatology
Southern States > Climate.
�Etats-Unis (Sud) > Climat.
Southern States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Abbreviations
  • Chapter -1 Regional climate in a global context
  • Chapter outline
  • 1.1
  • Climate without borders
  • 1.2
  • What is southeastern United States?
  • 1.3
  • The basis for regional climate
  • 1.4
  • Features of standing eddies
  • 1.5
  • Generation of stationary waves
  • 1.6
  • A practical application of standing waves
  • Chapter -2 Land-atmosphere interactions
  • Chapter outline
  • 2.1
  • What is land-atmosphere interaction?
  • 2.2
  • Seasonality of the southeastern US hydroclimate
  • 2.3
  • The soil moisture and precipitation relationship
  • 2.4
  • Importance of evapotranspiration
  • 2.5
  • Estimating evapotranspiration
  • 2.6
  • The influence of land cover and land use change
  • Chapter -3 The North Atlantic Subtropical High
  • Chapter outline
  • 3.1
  • Seasonal variations of the North Atlantic Subtropical High
  • 3.2
  • The Sverdrup vorticity balance
  • 3.3
  • The maintenance of the North Atlantic Subtropical High
  • 3.4
  • The trade wind inversion
  • 3.5
  • The variations of the Florida sea breeze
  • 3.6
  • The remote influence of the Equatorial Amazon
  • Chapter -4 The intra-Americas seas
  • Chapter outline
  • 4.1
  • The intra-Americas seas and the western hemisphere warm pool
  • 4.2
  • Seasonal variations of the Atlantic warm pool
  • 4.3
  • The upper ocean heat budget of the Atlantic warm pool
  • 4.4
  • The response of the atmospheric circulation to the Atlantic warm pool
  • 4.5
  • The impact of the Atlantic warm pool variations
  • 4.6
  • The barrier layers of the intra-Americas seas
  • 4.7
  • The Loop Current
  • 4.8
  • The Gulf Stream
  • 4.9
  • Air-sea interaction in the Gulf of Mexico
  • 4.10
  • The modes of variations of the intra-Americas seas
  • 4.11
  • Bias in climate models
  • Chapter -5 Florida's climate
  • Chapter outline
  • 5.1
  • The seasonal cycle of rainfall over Florida
  • 5.2
  • The seasonal cycle of the circulation field
  • 5.3
  • The seasonal cycle of the upper ocean surrounding Florida
  • 5.4
  • The winter season of Florida
  • 5.5
  • Variations in the length of the seasons
  • 5.6
  • The diurnal variations
  • 5.7
  • Impact of the Loop Current on terrestrial climate over Peninsular Florida
  • Chapter -6 Teleconnections
  • Chapter outline
  • 6.1
  • Teleconnections
  • 6.2
  • The ENSO phenomenon
  • 6.3
  • The theory of ENSO teleconnection
  • 6.4
  • ENSO teleconnection over North America
  • 6.5
  • ENSO teleconnection with Atlantic tropical cyclone activity
  • 6.6
  • Variations in ENSO teleconnection over North America
  • 6.7
  • The NAO
  • 6.8
  • The PDO
  • 6.9
  • The AMO
  • Chapter -7 The North Atlantic tropical cyclones
  • Chapter outline
  • 7.1
  • The unique clusters of North Atlantic tropical cyclones
  • 7.2
  • Regional features of landfalling tropical cyclones
  • 7.3
  • Anomalous Atlantic tropical cyclone seasons
  • 7.3.1
  • The 2010 hurricane season
  • 7.3.2
  • The 2005 hurricane season
  • 7.4
  • Impact of landfalling tropical cyclones on terrestrial rainfall

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