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BL
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1012701
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b767071
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| Main Entry
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Barry, Roger Graham.
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Synoptic and dynamic climatology /\ Roger G. Barry and Andrew M. Carleton.
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Routledge,, 2002.
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1 online resource (1 volume)
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| ISBN
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0203218183
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: 0203327497
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: 041503115X
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: 0415031168
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: 9780203218181
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: 9780203327494
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: 9780415031158
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: 9780415031165
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of plates; Preface; Acknowledgments; The climate system and its study; Introduction; Time and space scales of weather and climate processes; Dynamic and synoptic climatology; The structure of the book; Climate data and their analysis; Remotely sensed data; Climate variables and their statistical description; Analytical tools for spatial data; Time series; Empirical orthogonal function analysis, clustering, and classification; Eulerian and Lagrangian methods; Dynamic climatology; Global climate and the general circulation.
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Basic controls of the atmospheric circulation and its maintenanceCirculation cells; The Earth's geography; Climate system feedbacks; General circulation models; The global circulation description; Centers of action; Global climatic features; Air masses; Potential vorticity; Large-scale circulation and climatic characteristics; Jetstreams; Planetary waves; Zonal index; Zonal and blocking flow modes; Blocking mechanisms; Low-frequency circulation variability and per.
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| Abstract
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This book provides the first comprehensive account of the dynamical behaviour and mechanisms of the global climate system and its components, together with a modern survey of synoptic-scale weather systems in the tropics and extratropics.
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Synoptic climatology.
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NATURE-- Weather.
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SCIENCE-- Earth Sciences-- Meteorology Climatology.
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Synoptic climatology.
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| Dewey Classification
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551.6
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| LC Classification
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QC981.7.S8B36 2002eb
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Carleton, Andrew M., (Andrew Mark)
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