Tropical Meteorology An Introduction /

• Main Authors: Krishnamurti, T.N. (Author), Stefanova, Lydia. (Author), Misra, Vasubandhu. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: Springer Atmospheric Sciences,
• Subjects: Geography.; Oceanography.; Climatic changes.; Environmental sciences.; Earth Sciences.; Atmospheric Sciences.; Meteorology.; Math. Appl. in Environmental Science.; Climate Change.
• Online Access: vhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7409-8

This book is designed as an introductory course in Tropical Meteorology targeting graduate or advanced undergraduate students. 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 asymmetr...

Table of Contents:

• The Zonally Averaged Tropical Circulation
• Zonally Asymmetric Features in the Tropics
• The Intertropical Convergence Zone
• Heat Induced Circulations
• Monsoons
• Tropical Waves and Tropical Depressions
• The Madden Julian Oscillation
• Scale Interaction in the Tropics
• El Nino and Southern Oscillation
• Diabatic Potential Vorticity Over the Global Tropics
• Tropical Cloud Ensembles
• Tropical boundary layer
• Radiative Forcing
• Dry and moist static stability
• Hurricane Observations
• Genesis, Tracks and Intensification of Hurricanes
• Modeling and Forecasting of Hurricanes
• Sea Breeze and Diurnal Change Over the Tropics
• Tropical Squall Lines and Mesoscale convective systems.