Models for tropical climate dynamics : waves, clouds, and precipitation /: waves, clouds, and precipitation. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Boualem Khouider.
• Authors: Khouider, Boualem
• Contents: Part I Background and Preliminaries: Chapter 1- The Governing Equations and Dry Dynamics.- Chapter 2- Moisture and moist thermodynamics.- Chapter 3- Observations of tropical climate dynamics and convectively coupled waves.- Chapter 4- Introduction to stochastic processes, Markov chains, and Monte Carlo Simulation.- Part II The Deterministic Multicloud Model: Chapter 5- Simple models for moist gravity waves.- Chapter 6- The Multicloud Model with Congestus Preconditioning.- Chapter 7- Convectively Coupled Equatorial Waves in the Multicloud Model.- Chapter 8- Convective Momentum Transport and Upscale Interactions in the MJO.- Chapter 9- Implementation of the Multicloud Model in an Aquaplanet Global Climate Model.- Part III The Stochastic Multicloud Model: SMCM: Chapter 10- Stochastic birth and death models for clouds.- Chapter 11- Implementation of the SMCM in a Global Climate Model.- Chapter 12- SMCM in CFS: Improving the tropical modes of variability.- Glossary.- References.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Springer MPE
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 551.6913; Dynamic climatology; Earth sciences; Meteorology; Oceanography; Atmospheric physics; Environmental sciences; Tropics -- Climate; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030177751; 3030177750
• Related ISBNs: 9783030177744
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed July 8, 2019)
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