Making Sense of Weather and Climate, The Science Behind the Forecasts by Denny, Mark -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Copyright Contents Author’s Note Acknowledgments Forecast 1. Feeling the Heat

Local Astronomy The Blue-Green Planet Blackbody Radiation The Greenhouse Effect Heat Transfer

2. Under the Heavens and the Seas

Surface Irradiance and Surface Features Long-Term Orbital Effects Water Cycle Oceanic Circulations: Heat Pumps El Niño–Southern Oscillation

3. The Air We Breathe

Composition and Structure Absorption and Emission Tropospheric Circulations

4. Dynamic Planet

Greenhouses and Other Worlds Energy-Balance Model for Planet Earth Snowball Earth All Change General Circulation Models Past and Future Climate Change The Future

5. Oceans of Data

Development of Data Collection Land Surface Data Ocean Surface Data Atmospheric Data Data from Space Data Storage and Transfer

6. Statistically Speaking

Statistics Are Everywhere—Probably Measurement Error Starting Conditions and Chaos Prediction, Amid Randomness and Chaos

7. A Condensed Account of Clouds, Rain, and Snow

Clouds Are Crucial Clouding the Issue Fog Precipitation Thunderstorms

8. Weather Mechanisms

The Story So Far A Stampede of Forces Re: Lapses There’s Nothing Stable in the World; Uproar’s Your Only Music Enter the Vortex Front and Center

9. Weather Extremes: The New Normal

Feeling the Heat Drought In from the Cold Water, Water Everywhere Storms Winds of (Mis)fortune Climate Attribution

10. The World of Weather Forecasting

Prediction: Forecasts Improving Rapidly The Weather Industry The Face of Weather Forecasting Climate for Change

And That Wraps Up Your Weather for Today Appendix Glossary Notes Bibliography Index