Chester F. Ropelewski

Climate Analysis (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Sensational images and stories about variations in Earth's climate and their impacts on society are pervasive in the media. The scientific basis for these stories is often not understood by the general public, nor even by those with a scientific background in fields other than climate science. This book is a comprehensive resource that will enable the reader to understand and appreciate the significance of the flood of climate information. It is an excellent non-mathematical resource for learning the fundamentals of climate analysis, as well as a reference for non-climate experts that need to use climate information and data. The focus is on the basics of the climate system, how climate is observed and how the observations are transformed into datasets useful for monitoring the climate. Each chapter contains Discussion Questions. This is an invaluable textbook on climate analysis for advanced students, and a reference textbook for researchers and practitioners.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108573375
• Artikelnr.: 57070210

Autorenporträt

Chester F. Ropelewski has fifty years of experience in climate analysis, including weather forecasting, development of climate datasets and real-time monitoring systems, research in atmospheric turbulence, tropical boundary layers, hurricanes, the North American monsoon, sea ice, snow cover, climate variability, El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO), Quasi-Biennial Oscillation, hydrologic cycle, and droughts. He was awarded the Norbert Gerbier-Mumm Award from the World Meteorological Organization in 1990, and elected a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society in 2001. He is the author of over 100 research papers, book chapters and reports. He was Chief of the Analysis Branch of the Climate Prediction Center of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA); Director of the Climate Monitoring section of the International Research Institute for Climate and Society at Columbia University; and a Senior Policy Analyst and Advisor of The Earth Institute, Columbia University.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Antonio J. Busalacchi, Jr
Preface
List of abbreviations and acronyms
1. Earth's climate system
2. Climate analysis: goals and methods
3. Climate analysis: atmospheric instruments, observations, and datasets
4. Climate variability
5. Climate change
6. Temperature: building climate datasets
7. Precipitation: combining in-situ and remotely-sensed observations in constructing climate datasets
8. Ocean climate datasets
9. Cryosphere
10. Land component of the climate system
11. Climate models as information sources and analysis tools
12. Operational climate monitoring and prediction
Appendix A. A short guide to some statistics used in climate analysis
Appendix B. Vorticity/divergence, stream function/velocity potential
Appendix C. Preliminary examination of the data
Appendix D. Components of the mean water budget
Glossary
References
Index.