Visualizing Weather and Climate

by Anderson, Bruce; Strahler, Alan H.

• ISBN13: 9780470147757
• ISBN10: 047014775X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-09-22
• Publisher: WILEY

Summary

This exciting, new book will capture the reader's interest in weather and climate and then use that interest to engage them in activities that demonstrate the science that serves as the basis of the discipline. Sections such as Eye on the Atmosphere use beautiful imagery to help them see the atmosphere through the eyes of a meteorologist and ask scientific questions that place significant features in atmospheric context. It also includes expanded coverage of global change and recent phenomena.

Author Biography

Bruce T. Anderson is an Associate Chair of the Department of Geography and Environment at Boston University. He is also an Associate Professor in the Department. He serves as a Research Consultant for the Northeast Climate Impacts Assessment (NECIA) project and heads the Experimental Center for Remote Observations of Production (ECROP). He serves on the Membership Committee for the American Meteorological Society. He has been a National Research Council Fellow and a NOAA Visiting Scientist Fellow. He has over 25 peer-reviewed articles published or in press over the last 5 years and has been the invited speaker at both national and international universities, conferences, and workshops. His research interests include regional impacts of climate variability, large-scale and regional atmospheric dynamics and hydrology, coupled ocean-atmosphere variability, and climate/vegetation interactions and feedbacks. He received his Ph.D. from Scripps Institution of Oceanography in 1998 and graduated with a B.S. in Physics from University of California, Santa Barbara in 1994.

Table of Contents

Introducing Weather and Climate

The Earth's Atmosphere

The Earth's Global Energy Balance

Surface Temperature and its Variation

Atmospheric Moisture

Winds

Global Atmospheric and Oceanic Circulation

Midlatitude Weather Systems

Tropical Weather Systems

Thunderstorms and Tornadoes

Global Scope of Climate

Climate Regimes

Climate Variability

Human Interaction with Weather and Climate

Weather Forecasting and Numerical Modeling

Human-Induced Climate Change and Climate Forecasting

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