About this book
This volume examines future strategies in meteorology and climatology that involves the whole atmospheric and related communities: scientists, service providers, manufacturers and users. While the central focus is the application of meteorology for society, this volume also addresses a wide spectrum of scientific and application topics in atmospheric sciences - atmosphere and the water cycle, forecasting the weather from one day to one year ahead, climatology, and meteorology and society.
Contents
Introduction: Luis Gimeno, Ricardo Garcia-Herrera, and Ricardo M. Trigo.1. Ship's Logbooks in Climatological Research: Reflections and Prospects: Dennis Wheeler and Ricardo Garcia-Herrera.2. The ENSO signal in the stratosphere: Natalia Calvo, Ricardo Garcia-Herrera, Rolando R. Garcia.3. Hemispheric asymmetries in the Quasi-biennial Oscillation signature on the mid-high latitude circulation of the stratosphere: C. Pena-Ortiz , R. Garcia-Herrera , P. Ribera , N. Calvo.4. Cryosphere-atmosphere interaction related to NAO variability and change: Roxana Bojariu, Ricardo Garcia Herrera , Luis Gimeno, Tingjun Zhang, Oliver W. Frauenfeld.5. The role of stochastic forcing on the behaviour of the Thermohaline circulation: M.N. Lorenzo, J.J. Taboada, I. Iglesias and I. Alvarez.6. Are Reanalysis data useful to calculate Climate Indices over South America?: Amanda Sabatini Dufek, Tercio Ambrizzi and Rosmeri P. Rocha.7. Classifications of atmospheric circulation patterns: recent advances and applications: Radan Huth, Christoph Beck, Andreas Philipp, Matthias Demuzere, Zbigniew Ustrnul, Monika Cahynova, Jan Kysely, and Ole Einar Tveito.8. The Intra-Americas Seas Low-Level Jet: Overview and Future Research: Jorge A. Amador.9. Large Scale Factors in Tropical and Extratropical Cyclone Transition and Extreme Weather Events: Alexandre Bernardes Pezza and Ian Simmonds.10. North Atlantic wind and cyclone trends and their impact in the European precipitation and Atlantic significant wave height: Ricardo M. Trigo, Maria A. Valente, Isabel F. Trigo, Pedro Miranda, Alexandre M. Ramos, Daniel Paredes, Ricardo Garcia-Herrera.11. A climatology based on reanalysis of baroclinic developmental regions in the extratropical Northern Hemisphere: Laura de la Torre, Raquel Nieto, Marta Noguerol, Juan Antonio Anel, Luis Gimeno.12. Identification and Climatology of Cut-off Lows near the Tropopause: R. Nieto, M. Sprenger, H. Wernli, R. Trigo, and L. Gimeno.13. The estimation of probable maximum precipitation: the case of Catalonia: M.Carmen Casas, Raul Rodriguez, Raquel Nieto, and Angel Redano.14. Daily rainfall variability over Northeastern Argentina in the La Plata River Basin: Norberto O. Garcia, Raul A. Pedraza.15. Spatio-temporal upwelling trends along the Canary Upwelling System (1967-2006): M. Gomez-Gesteira, M. de Castro, I. Alvarez, M. N. Lorenzo, J.L.G. Gesteira & A.J.C. Crespo.16. Impacts of Climate change and Variability on European Agriculture: results of inventory analysis in COST 734 countries: Simone Orlandini, Josef Eitzinger, Vesselin Alexandrov, Leonidas Toulios, Pierluigi Calanca, Miroslav Trnka, and Joergen Olesen.17. Advances in Urban Climate Modeling: Julia Hidalgo, Valery Masson, Alexander Baklanov, Gregoire Pigeon, Luis Gimeno.Index of Contributors
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