Climates and weather explained:
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London [u.a.]
Routledge
1997
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| Beschreibung: | X, 432 S. Ill., graph. Darst., Kt. 1 CD-ROM (12 cm) |
| ISBN: | 0415125200 0415125197 |
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| adam_text | IMAGE 1
CLIMATES AND WEATHER
EXPLAINED
EDWARD LINACRE AND BART GEERTS
O [- M M
LONDON AND NEW YORK
IMAGE 2
CONTENTS
PREFACE IX
PART I AIR
1 THE ATMOSPHERE 3
1.1 INTRODUCTION 3
1.2 ORIGIN OF THE ATMOSPHERE 4
1.3 COMPOSITION OF AIR 6
1.4 OZONE IN THE UPPER ATMOSPHERE 10
1.5 ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE 12
1.6 ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE 16
1.7 ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY 19
1.8 ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE 20
PART II ENERGY
2 RADIATION 25
2.1 KINDS OF RADIATION 25
2.2 SOLAR RADIATION REACHING THE EARTH 27
2.3 ATTENUATION WITHIN THE ATMOSPHERE 33
2.4 RADIATION AT GROUND LEVEL 36
2.5 ALBEDO 38
2.6 ULTRA-VIOLET RADIATION 40
2.7 LONGWAVE RADIATION 43
2.8 NET RADIATION 48
3 TEMPERATURE 50
3.1 TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT 50
3.2 SCREEN TEMPERATURES 54
33 SEASONAL CHANGES 61
3.4 DAILY CHANGES 65
3.5 GROUND TEMPERATURES 69
IMAGE 3
VI CONTENTS
3.6 FROST 71
3.7 URBAN TEMPERATURES 72
4 EVAPORATION 76
4.1 CHANGES OF STATE 76
4.2 VAPOUR PRESSURE AND EVAPORATION 78
4.3 FEATURES OF THE EVAPORATION PROCESS 79
4.4 DETERMINING THE EVAPORATION RATE 82
4.5 VARIOUS EVAPORATION RATES 84
4.6 VALUES OF THE EVAPORATION RATE 87
4.7 DEW 91
5 ENERGY BALANCES 93
5.1 THE ENERGY-BALANCE EQUATION 93
5.2 ENERGY BALANCES OF LARGE SCALE 96
5.3 LOCAL ENERGY BALANCES 98
5.4 ALTERING THE ENERGY BALANCE 101
5.5 THE ENERGY BALANCE OF THE HUMAN BODY 103
PART III WATER
6 HUMIDITY 109
6.1 THE HYDROLOGIC CYCLE 109
6.2 DESCRIBING THE AIR S HUMIDITY 110
6.3 MEASURING THE AIR S HUMIDITY 113
6.4 HUMIDITY AT THE SURFACE 116
6.5 HUMIDITY AND HUMAN COMFORT 122
6.6 HUMIDITY ALOFT 124
7 ATMOSPHERIC INSTABILITY 127
7.1 INSTABILITY AND FEEDBACK 127
7.2 LAPSE RATES 128
7.3 INSTABILITY OF THE ATMOSPHERE 130
7.4 EXAMPLES OF INSTABILITY 134
7.5 TORNADOES, DUST-DEVILS AND WATERSPOUTS 138
7.6 STABLE LAYERS 139
8 CLOUDS 146
8.1 THE FORMATION OF CLOUDS 146
8.2 CLOUD DROPLETS 151
8.3 CATEGORIES AND CHANGES 152
8.4 FOG 155
8.5 STRATIFORM CLOUDS 158
8.6 CUMULIFORM CLOUDS 158
8.7 HIGH CLOUDS 161
8.8 OBSERVING CLOUDINESS 162
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CONTENTS VII
8.9 AMOUNTS OF CLOUD 164
8.10 EFFECTS OF CLOUDS 166
9 CLOUD PROCESSES 170
9-1 CLOUDS AND RAIN 170
9.2 FORMING RAINDROPS 172
9.3 CLOUD SEEDING 174
9.4 KINDS OF PRECIPITATION 175
9-5 THUNDERSTORMS 177
9.6 CLOUD ELECTRICITY 184
9.7 GLOBAL ELECTRICITY 188
9.8 HAIL 189
10 PRECIPITATION 192
10.1 GENERAL 192
10.2 RAINFALL INTENSITY 193
10.3 SPATIAL DIFFERENCES 195
10.4 VARIATIONS OF RAINFALL 199
10.5 WATER BALANCES 205
10.6 FLOODS 208
10.7 DROUGHTS 209
10.8 SNOW 215
11 OCEANS 219
11.1 OCEANS AND CLIMATES 219
11.2 OCEAN TEMPERATURES 220
11.3 SALINITY 227
11.4 THE CORIOLIS EFFECT AND THE OCEANS 229
11.5 OCEAN CURRENTS 234
PART IV WINDS
12 GLOBAL WINDS 243
12.1 SURFACE WINDS OF THE GLOBE 243
12.2 FACTORS GOVERNING GLOBAL WINDS 248
12.3 CIRCULATIONS WITHIN THE TROPOSPHERE 252
12.4 THE UPPER WESTERLIES 258
12.5 JET STREAMS 261
12.6 MODELS OF THE GENERAL CIRCULATION 262
12.7 ENSO 264
13 SYNOPTIC-SCALE WINDS 271
13.1 INTRODUCTION 271
13.2 AIR MASSES 272
13.3 FRONTS 273
13.4 LOWS 282
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VIII CONTENTS
13-5 TROPICAL CYCLONES 284
13.6 HIGHS 292
14 LOCAL WINDS 295
14.1 GENERAL 295
14.2 SEA BREEZES 299
14.3 MOUNTAIN WINDS 305
14.4 TURBULENCE 308
14.5 WIND ENERGY 311
14.6 SEA WAVES 313
14.7 URBAN AIR POLLUTION 316
PART V CLIMATES
15 WEATHER AND CLIMATE CHANGE 321
15.1 WEATHER DATA 321
15.2 WEATHER FORECASTING 323
15.3 PAST CLIMATES 331
15.4 CLIMATES IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY 339
15.5 FUTURE CLIMATES 343
16 SOUTHERN CLIMATES 348
16.1 INTRODUCTION 348
16.2 CLIMATE CLASSIFICATION 349
16.3 ANTARCTICA 355
16.4 SOUTH AMERICA 359
16.5 SOUTH AFRICA 368
16.6 AUSTRALIA 374
16.7 NEW ZEALAND 380
16.8 CONCLUSIONS 382
PART VI SUPPLEMENTS
17 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 387
17.1 ASSISTANCE 387
17.2 ADVICE 387
17.3 TABLES, NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS 388
LIST OF PLATES 395
LIST OF FIGURES 396
LIST OF TABLES 404
LIST OF NOTES 406
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS 412
BIBLIOGRAPHY 4 L4
INDEX 422
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