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Handbook of Weather, Climate, and Water Dynamics, Climate, Physical Meteorology, Weather Systems, and Measurement


Preface
Dedication and Acknowledgments
Contributors

Section 1 : Dynamic Meteorology
Chapter 1 : Overview—Atmospheric Dynamics
Chapter 2 : Fundamental Forces and Governing Equations
Chapter 3 : Circulation, Vorticity, and Potential Vorticity
Chapter 4 : Extratropical Atmospheric Circulations
Chapter 5 : Dynamics of the Tropical Atmosphere
Chapter 6 : Turbulence
Chapter 7 : Predictability and Chaos
Chapter 8 : Historical Overview of Numerical Weather Prediction

Section 2 : The Climate System
Chapter 9 : Overview : The Climate System
Chapter 10 : The Ocean in Climate
Chapter 11 : Processes Determining Land Surface Climate
Chapter 12 : Observations of Climate and Global Change from Real-Time Measurements
Chapter 13 : Why Should We Believe Predictions of Future Climate?
Chapter 14 : The EL NiNO—Southern Oscillation (ENSO) System

Section 3 : Physical Meteorology
Chapter 15 : Physical Atmospheric Science
Chapter 16 : Moist Thermodynamics
Chapter 17 : Thermodynamic Analysis in the Atmosphere
Chapter 18 : Microphysical Processes in the Atmosphere
Chapter 19 : Radiation in the Atmosphere : Foundations
Chapter 20 : Radiation in the Atmosphere : Observations and Applications
Chapter 21 : The Classification of Clouds
Chapter 22 : Atmospheric Electricity and Lightning
Chapter 23 : Weather Modification
Chapter 24 : Atmospheric Optics

Section 4 : Weather Systems
Chapter 25 : Overview for Weather Systems
Chapter 26 : Large-Scale Atmospheric Systems
Chapter 27 : Winter Weather Systems
Chapter 28 : Terrain-Forced Mesoscale Circulations
Chapter 29 : Severe Thunderstorms and Tornadoes
Chapter 30 : Tropical Precipitating Systems
Chapter 31 : Hurricanes
Chapter 32 : Modern Weather Forecasting

Section 5 : Measurements
Chapter 33 : Atmospheric Measurements
Chapter 34 : Challenges of Measurements
Chapter 35 : Measurement in the Atmosphere
Chapter 36 : Instrument Development in the National Weather Services
Chapter 37 : Consequence of Instrument and Siting Changes
Chapter 38 : Commercial Response to Measurement Needs : Development of Wind Monitor Series of Wind Sensors
Chapter 39 : Commercial Response to Measurement System Design
Chapter 40 : Design, Calibration, and Quality Assurance Needs of Networks
Chapter 41 : Data Validity in the National Archive
Chapter 42 : Demands of Forensic Meteorology
Chapter 43 : Surface Layer in Situ or Short-Path Measurements for Electric Utility Operations
Chapter 44 : Independent Auditing Aspects of Measurement Programs
Chapter 45 : Regulatory Approaches to Quality Assurance and Quality Control Programs
Chapter 46 : Measuring Global Temperature
Chapter 47 : Satellite Versus in Situ Measurements at the Air-Sea Interface
Chapter 48 : Radar Technologies in Support of Forecasting and Research
Chapter 49 : Basic Research for Military Applications
Chapter 50 : Challenge of Snow Measurements

Index


Handbook of Weather, Climate, and Water Atmospheric Chemistry, Hydrology and Societal Impacts


Preface
Contributors

Section 1 : Atmospheric Chemistry
Chapter 1 : Overview : Atmospheric Chemistry
Chapter 2 : Oxidizing Power of Atmosphere
Chapter 3 : Tropospheric Ozone
Chapter 4 : Nitrogen Oxides and Other Reactive Nitrogen Species
Chapter 5 : Carbon Monoxide in the Atmosphere
Chapter 6 : Atmospheric Methane
Chapter 7 : Biogenic Nonmethane Hydrocarbons
Chapter 8 : Atmospheric Sulfur
Chapter 9 : Convective Transport
Chapter 10 : Boundary Layer Processes and Flux Measurements
Chapter 11 : Sources and Composition of Aerosol Particles
Chapter 12 : Aerosols : Formation and Microphysics in the Troposphere
Chapter 13 : Photochemical Smog : Ozone and Its Precursors
Chapter 14 : Biomass Burning
Chapter 15 : Acid Rain and Deposition
Chapter 16 : Fundamentals of Visibility
Chapter 17 : Cloud Chemistry
Chapter 18 : Dry Deposition
Chapter 19. : Fate of Atmospheric Trace Gases : Wet Deposition
Chapter 20 : Large-Scale Circulation of the Stratosphere
Chapter 21 : Stratospheric Ozone Observations
Chapter 22 : Aerosol Processes in the Stratosphere

Section 2 : Hydrology
Chapter 23 : Hydrology Overview
Chapter 24 : Rainfall
Chapter 25 : Snow Hydrology and Water Resources (Western United States)
Chapter 26 : Evaluating the Spatial Distribution of Evaporation
Chapter 27 : Infiltration and Soil Moisture Processes
Chapter 28 : Groundwater Flow Processes
Chapter 29 : Surface Runoff Generation
Chapter 30 : Flow Routing
Chapter 31 : Hydrologic Modeling for Runoff Forecasting
Chapter 32 : Stochastic Characteristics and Modeling of Hydroclimatic Processes
Chapter 33 : Stochastic Simulation of Precipitation and Streamflow Processes
Chapter 34 : Stochastic Forecasting of Precipitation and Streamflow Processes
Chapter 35 : Remote Sensing and Geographical Information Systems Applications in Hydrology
Chapter 36 : Floods

Section 3 : Societal Impacts
Chapter 37 : Climate and Society
Chapter 38 : Household Food Security and Coping with Climatic Variability in Developing Countries
Chapter 39 : Drought in the U.S. Great Plains
Chapter 40 : Floods on the Mississippi River System of the United States
Chapter 41 : Drought in Northwest Africa
Chapter 42 : Hurricane as an Extreme Meteorological Event
Chapter 43 : EL NINO in Australia
Chapter 44 : Biological and Societal Impacts of Climate Variability : An Example from Peruvian Fisheries
Chapter 45 : Drought in South Africa
Chapter 46 : Transboundary Fisheries : Pacific Salmon
Chapter 47 : Transboundary River Flow Changes
Chapter 48 : Lessons from the Rising Caspian
Chapter 49 : Acid Rain and Society
Chapter 50 : Impacts of Climate Change
Chapter 51 : Impacts of Stratospheric Ozone Depletion
Chapter 52 : Tropical Deforestation and Climate
Chapter 53 : Desertification
Chapter 54 : Imaginable Surprises

Index