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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Douglas J. Parker , Mariane Diop-KanePublisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell Dimensions: Width: 21.60cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 27.90cm Weight: 1.452kg ISBN: 9781118391303ISBN 10: 1118391306 Pages: 496 Publication Date: 26 April 2017 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsContributors xiii Foreword xiv Preface xv Acknowledgements xvii Acronyms xviii 1 Mean Climate and Seasonal Cycle 1 1.1 Introduction 1 1.2 Rainfall and Evaporation Climatologies 3 1.3 Water Vapour and Clouds 12 1.4 Radiation, Dust, Sunshine Duration, Vegetation and Soil Water 14 1.5 Pressure, Temperature, Humidity and Wind at the Surface 18 1.6 Upper Air Wind, Mass and Humidity Fields 22 1.7 Summary Schematics of the January and July West African Monsoon System 33 2 Synoptic Systems 40 2.1 Scientific Background 40 2.2 Operational Methods and Canonical Synoptic Patterns 71 3 Deep Convection 90 3.1 Scientific Background 90 3.2 Operational Methods 115 4 Local Weather 130 4.1 Scientific Background 130 4.2 Operational Methods 160 5 Dust 175 5.1 Scientific Background 175 5.2 Operational Methods 188 6 Nowcasting 204 6.1 Scientific Background 204 6.2 Operational Methods for Nowcasting Severe Weather 221 7 Subseasonal Forecasting 255 7.1 Scientific Background 255 7.2 Operational Methods 277 8 Seasonal Forecasting 289 8.1 Scientific Background 289 8.2 Operational Methods 316 9 Remote Sensing 323 9.1 Scientific Background 323 9.2 Operational Methods 362 9.3 Case Study, Presentations and Other Resources 373 10 Numerical Weather Prediction over Africa 380 10.1 Scientific Background 380 10.2 Operational Numerical Weather Prediction over Africa 397 11 West African Synthetic Analysis and Forecast: WASA/F 423 11.1 Introduction 423 11.2 The intertropical discontinuity/intertropical front, or intertropical boundary in Ghana 425 11.3 The Heat Low or Thermal Depression 426 11.4 The Subtropical Jet 429 11.5 Features Associated with Mid]latitudes 430 11.6 Mid]level Dry Air 431 11.7 The Tropical Easterly Jet 431 11.8 The African Easterly Jet 433 11.9 African Easterly Waves and Cyclonic Vortices 435 11.10 The African Monsoon Layer and the Monsoon Trough 441 11.11 Dust or Sand 444 11.12 Convection 444ReviewsAuthor InformationDouglas J Parker is the Met Office Professor of Meteorology at the University of Leeds. Mariane Diop-Kane heads the Research and Development Department in the Senegalese weather service (ANACIM). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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