James Lighthill, R. P. Pearce, Lighthill James

Monsoon Dynamics

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume presents a survey of our state of knowledge of the physical and dynamical processes involved in the Asian monsoon.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 760
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Februar 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 40mm
• Gewicht: 1080g
• ISBN-13: 9780521104265
• ISBN-10: 0521104262
• Artikelnr.: 25686601

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. The large-scale climatology of the tropical atmosphere:
Introduction; 1. Teleconnections of rainfall anomalies in the tropics and
subtropics; 2. Northern summer planetary-scale monsoons during drought and
normal rainfall months; 3. The annual oscillation of the trophospheric
temperature in the northern hemisphere; 4. Summer mean energetics for
standing and transcient eddies in the wavenumber domain; 5. Monitoring the
monsoon outflow from geosynchronous satellite data; 6. Predictability of
monsoon; 7. A review of general-circulation model experiments in the Indian
monsoon; 8. Simulation of the Asian summer monsoon by an 11-layer
general-circulation model; 9. Analysis of monsoonal quasi-stationary
systems as revealed in a real-data prediction experiment; 10. A model of
the seasonally varying planetary-scale monsoon; 11. Wave interactions in
the equatorial atmosphere - an analytical study; Part II. The summer
monsoon over the Indian subcontinent and East Africa: 12. The monsoon as
reflected in the behaviour of the tropical high-pressure belt; 13. On the
onset of the Indian southwest monsoon and the monsoon general circulation;
14. Medium-range forecasting of monsoon rains; 15. Sea-surface temperature
and the monsoon; 16. The effect of elevation on monsoon rainfall
distribution in the central Himalayas; 17. Use of the equation of
continuity of water vapour for computation of average precipitation over
peninsular India during the summer monsoon; 18. Determination of cloud
cluster properties from MONSOON77 data; 19. Analysis of superpressure
balloon trajectories and conventional observations over the Indian Ocean
during different phases of the 1975 southwest monsoon; 20. An experiment in
monitoring cross-equatorial airflow at low level over Kenya and rainfall of
western India during the northern summers; 21. Structure of the Somali Jet
deducted from aerial observations taken during June-July 1977; 22. Certain
aspects of monsoonal precipitation dynamics over Lake Victoria; 23. A
numerical model of the monsoon trough; 24. On the monsoonal midtropospheric
cyclogenesis over western India; 25. Downstream development of baroclinic
waves in the upper-tropospheric monsoon easterlies suggested by a simple
model experiment; 26. The stability of the monsoon zonal flow with a
superposed stationary monsoon wave; 27. Growth of monsoon disturbances over
western India; 28. Topographic Rossby waves in the summer monsoon; Part
III. The physics and dynamics of the Indian Ocean during the summer
monsoon: 29. Observations of the Somali Current and its relationship to the
monsoon winds; 30. Structure of currents and hydrographic conditions in the
western equatorial Indian Ocean during the summer monsoon; 31. Recent
observations in the equatorial Indian Ocean; 32. Sea temperature variations
in the northeastern Arabian Sea in relation to the southwest monsoon; 33.
Heat budget of the north Indian oceanic surface during MONSOON77; 34. The
energy budget at selected stations over the north Indian Ocean during
MONSOON77; 35. Observations of coastal-water upwelling around India; 36. A
numerical study of surface cooling processes during summer in the Arabian
Sea; 37. Maximum simplification of nonlinear Somali Current dynamics; Part
IV. Some important mathematical modelling techniques: 39. On the
incorporation of orography into numerical prediction models; 40. Vertical
motion in the monsoon circulation; 41. A one-dimensional model of the
planetary boundary layer for monsoon studies; 42. The use of empirical
orthogonal functions for rainfall estimates; 43. Applications of
perturbation theory to problems of simulation of atmospheric processes;
Part V. Storm surges and flood forecasting: 44. Storm-surge prediction
using numerical models; 45. Numerical simulation of storm surges in the Bay
of Bengal; 46. Flood stage forecasting in rivers; Index.