Meteorology at the MillenniumAcademic Press, 2002 - 333 pages 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 Elean ... |
Contents
A INTRODUCTION | 3 |
E VERIFYING PROBABILITY FORECASTS | 10 |
BAROCLINIC INSTABILITY MODEL | 17 |
Mesoscale Mountains and the Larger | 29 |
Potential Vorticity Anomalies | 35 |
NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS OF ALPINE | 37 |
The Upscale Turbulent Cascade Shear | 43 |
PAIRING IN VORTEX DYNAMICS ON | 51 |
A INTRODUCTION | 165 |
F DISCUSSION | 172 |
E ANALYSIS OF IMG AND IRIS DATA | 178 |
A INTRODUCTION | 185 |
Model Results | 193 |
B REGULATION OF THE MONSOON ANNUAL | 201 |
Modes of Interannual Variability in the Monsoon | 207 |
GENERAL THEORY OF REGULATION OF | 214 |
E CONCLUSIONS | 59 |
Baroclinic Instability | 65 |
New Observational Technologies | 72 |
Turning Dynamical Ideas into Forecast | 83 |
E EXAMPLES OF USE OF THE NEW GRAPHICAL | 90 |
CommaCloudBaraclinicZone Interaction | 96 |
THE GRAPHICAL CODE OF ANASYG | 102 |
Lewis Fry Richardson | 106 |
The Barotropic Model | 112 |
A INTRODUCTION | 123 |
DEVELOPMENTS IN STUDIES OF THE INDIRECT | 129 |
EARLY EUROPEAN INSTRUMENTAL | 137 |
A INTRODUCTION | 143 |
CONCLUDING COMMENTS ON THE OTHER | 149 |
DETECTION AND ATTRIBUTION | 158 |
A INTRODUCTION | 220 |
P SOLAR RADIATION | 226 |
The Biogeochemical | 247 |
Ammonia | 253 |
A INTRODUCTION 233 | 259 |
The Dynamic Global Vegetation Model | 262 |
A FIRST TRANSIENT CLIMATECARBON | 268 |
F CONCLUSIONS | 276 |
A INTRODUCTION | 283 |
THE QUASIBIENNIAL OSCILLATION | 289 |
Atmospheric Dynamics of the Outer | 306 |
E GALILEO ORBITER OBSERVATIONS OF WATER | 312 |
QUATERNARY PALAEOCLIMATES | 318 |
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