1st Edition

Synoptic and Dynamic Climatology

By Roger G. Barry, Andrew M. Carleton Copyright 2001
640 Pages
by Routledge

644 Pages
by Routledge

644 Pages
by Routledge

Synoptic and Dynamic Climatology provides the first comprehensive account of the dynamical behaviour and mechanisms of the global climate system and its components, together with a modern survey of synoptic-scale weather systems in the tropics and extratropics, and of the methods and applications of synoptic climate classification. It is unrivalled in the scope and detail of its contents. The... Read more
List of plates Preface Acknowledgements Part 1 - The climate system and its study 1. Introduction 2. Climate data and their analysis Part 2 - Dynamic climatology 3. Global climate and the general circulation 4. Large-scale circulation and climatic characteristics 5. Global teleconnections Part 3 - Synoptic climatology 6. Synoptic systems 7. Synoptic climatology and its applications 8. Retrospect and prospect Further reading Index

Biography

Roger G. Barry, Andrew M. Carleton