Monsoon Meteorology

by Chang, C. P.; Krishnamurti, T. N.

• ISBN13: 9780195042542
• ISBN10: 0195042549
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1987-10-29
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This major review of monsoon meteorology reflects the most recent research on the subject. There are fifteen essays written especially for the book, each by a different author or set of authors. As the first major review of monsoon research since the Global Weather Experiment in 1978-79, it starts from a section which includes a synthesis of the planetary scale aspects of the northern summer monsoon, followed by the regional aspects of the summer monsoon over India, China and Japan. The next section focuses on the synoptic, planetary and regional aspects of the northern winter monsoon. The role of physical processes such as the influences of differential heating between the land and the ocean, the thermal and mechanical effects of the mountains of the monsoon region and the significance of the clouds are presented in the third section. The final section contains summaries on the dynamical theories and computational modelling efforts.

Table of Contents

The Northern Summer Monsoon

Observational Aspects of Summer Monsoon

Variability and Forecasting of the Summer Monsoon Rainfall over India

A Review of Recent Research on the East Asian Summer Monsoon in China

The Early Summer Rainy Season (Baiu) over Japan

The Northern Winter Monsoon

Synoptic Aspects of Wintertime East Asian Monsoon

Planetary Scale Aspects of the Winter Monsoon and Atmospheric Teleconnections

The Australian Summer Monsoon

Heating, Topography, and Clouds

Effects of the Tibetan Plateau

Global and Regional Distributions of Atmospheric Heat Sources and Sinks During the GWE

Precipitating Cloud Systems of the Asian Monsoon

Satellite Cloudiness in the Monsoon Area

Theoretical and Modeling Studies

On the Dynamics of Midlatitude-Tropical Interactions and the Winter Monsoon

Synoptic Scale Disturbances in the Summer Monsoon

Boundary Layer Dynamics of Tropical and Monsoonal Flows

Numerical Weather Prediction of Monsoons

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