Research Catalog

Title

Monsoon meteorology [by] C. S. Ramage.

Author

Ramage, Colin S.

Publication

New York, Academic Press, 1971.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Holdings

Details

Description

xi, 296 p. illus., charts, map (on lining paper); 24 cm.

Series Statement

International geophysics series ; v. 15

Uniform Title

International geophysics series v. 15.

Subject

• Monsoons
• Synoptic climatology
• Synoptic meteorology

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 259-277.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

REGIONAL CLIMATOLOGY OF THE SURFACE MONSOON CIRCULATIONS: Data -- Large-scale coastal influences -- Annual variation of surface circulations -- Heat balance at the ocean surface during the monsoons -- Rainfall distribution -- SYNOPTIC COMPONENTS OF MONSOONS: Polar anticyclones -- Heat lows -- Tropical cyclones -- Monsoon depressions -- Subtropical cyclones -- Weak low-pressure circulations -- Troughs in the upper-tropospheric westerlies -- Near-equatorial and monsoon troughs -- Quasi-stationary noncirculating disturbances -- Transequatorial flow -- Squall lines -- PRECIPITATION AND MESOSCALE FEATURES: The character of precipitation in the monsoons -- Mesoscale features -- MARCH OF THE SEASONS: Role of the Himalayan-Tibetan Massif in the monsoons -- Procedure selection -- The deserts -- Equatorial Africa -- Indonesia and Malaysia -- Indian Ocean -- North Africa -- Asia -- Southern Hemisphere -- SYNOPTIC ANALYSIS AND SHORT-PERIOD FORECASTING: Synoptic analysis -- Short-period forecasting -- MONSOONS AND THE ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; FLOODS, DROUGHTS, AND TRENDS: Transequatorial effects of the south Asian Summer Monsoon -- The East Asian Winter and Australian Summer Monsoons -- Variability of July Rain in Central China -- Long-range forecasting.

ISBN

0125766505

LCCN

^^^73127697^

OCLC

• 120759
• SCSB-10058763

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library