Meteorology at the millennium /

Corporate Author: Royal Meteorological Society (Great Britain)
Other Authors: Pearce, R. P.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: San Diego : Academic Press, ©2002.
Series:International geophysics series ; v. 83
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Online Access:http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=216917
Table of Contents:
  • Predicting uncertainty in numerical weather forecasts / T.N. Palmer
  • Extratropical cyclones : an historical perspective / Alan J. Thorne
  • Numerical methods for atmospheric general circulation models : refinements or fundamental advances? / David L. Williamson
  • Mesoscale mountains and the larger-scale atmospheric dynamics : a review / Christoph Schär
  • The upscale turbulent cascade Shear layers, cyclones and gas giant bands / W.R. Peltier and G.R. Stuhne
  • The role of water in atmosphertc dynamics and climate / Kerry Emanuel
  • New observational technologlies Scientific and societal impacts / Frédéric Fabry and Isztar Zawadzki
  • Turning dynamical ideas into forecast practice : a proposal for a renewed graphical summary of the synoptic scale situation / Alain Joly and Patrick Santurette
  • Weather forecasting : from woolly art to solid science / Peter Lynch
  • Problems in quantifying natural and anthropogenic perturbations to the earth's energy balance / Keith P. Shine and Eleanor J. Highwood
  • Changes in climate and variability over the last 1000 years / Philip D. Jones
  • Climatic variability over the North Atlantic / James W. Hurrell, Marten P. Hoerling and Chris K. Folland
  • Prediction and detection of anthropogenic climate change / J.F.B. Mitchell
  • Absorption of solar radiation in the atmosphere : reconciling models with measurements / A. Slingo
  • The impact of satellite observations of the earth's spectrum on climate research / J.E. Harries
  • Atlantic air-sea interaction revisited / M.J. Rodwell
  • The monsoon as a self-regulating coupled ocean-atmosphere system / Peter J. Webster, Christina Clark, Galina Cherikova, John Fasullo, Weiqing Han, Johannes Loschnigg and Kamran Sahami
  • Laminar flow in the ocean Ekman layer / John Woods
  • Ocean observations and the climate forecast problem / Carl Wunsch
  • Biogeochemical connections between the atmosphere and the ocean / Peter S. Liss
  • Modelling vegetation and the carbon cycle as interactive elements of the climate system / Peter M. Cox, Richard A. Betts, A. Betts, Chris D. Jones, Steven A. Spall and Ian J. Totterdell
  • Some fundamental aspects of atmospheric dynamics, with a solar spinoff / Michael McIntyre
  • Atmospheric dynamics of the outer planets / Andrew P. Ingersoll
  • Palaeoclimate studies at the millennium : the role of the coupled system / Paul J. Valdes.