Research Catalog

Title

Recent climatic change : a regional approach / edited by S. Gregory.

Publication

London ; New York : Belhaven Press, 1988.

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Details

Additional Authors

Gregory, S. (Stanley)

Description

xvi, 326 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subject

• Geschichte 1840-1986
• Climatic changes
• Climate Change
• climate change
• Changement climatique
• Aufsatzsammlung
• Klimaänderung
• Klimaatveranderingen
• Nieuwste tijd

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

• Modelling the climatic response to greenhouse gases / W. Bach -- Volcanism and air temperature variations in recent centuries / C.D. Schönwiese -- Large-scale precipitation fluctuations : a comparison of grid-based and areal precipitation estimates / P.D. Jones -- The Meteorological Office historical sea surface temperature data set / D.E. Parker and C.K. Folland -- Variation of air temperature and atmospheric precipitation in the region of Svalbard and of Jan Mayen / R. Brázdil -- Variations in the wind resource over the British Isles for potential power production / T.D. Davies [and others] -- Precipitation composition and climatic change in Scotland and southern Scandinavia / T.D. Davies [and others].
• Intra-seasonal fluctuations of mid-tropospheric circulation above the eastern Mediterranean / J. Jacobeit -- Intra-annual weather fluctuations during the rainy season in Israel / D. Sharon and B. Ronberg -- Temporal changes in the spatial distribution of rainfall in the Central Coastal Plain of Israel / Y. Goldreich -- Trends in Maltese rainfall : causes and consequences / A.H. Perry -- The recent variability of precipitation in north-western Africa / A. Douguedroit -- Modelling the influence of sea-surface temperatures on tropical rainfall / J.A. Owen and C.K. Folland -- Sea-surface temperature : Sahel drought teleconnections in GCM simulations / L.M. Druyan -- Sea-surface temperature anomaly patterns and prediction of seasonal rainfall in the Sahel region of Africa / D.E. Parker, C.K. Folland and M.N. Ward.
• Changes in wet season structure in central Sudan, 1900-86 / M. Hulme -- Rainfall data bases and seasonal forecasting in eastern Africa / G. Farmer -- Synoptic circulation types and climatic variation over southern Africa / P.D. Tyson -- Inter-annual variations of tropical rainfall and upper circulations / J. Jacobeit -- El Niño years and the spatial pattern of drought over India, 1901-70 / S. Gregory -- Predictability of seasonal rainfal in the northern Nordeste region of Brazil / M.N. Ward, S. Brooks and C.K. Folland -- The effects of ENSO events in some key regions of the South American continent / C.N. Caviedes -- Outline of a historical weather data base for Japan / M. Yoshimura and M.M. Yoshino.
• Reconstruction of rainfall variation in the Bai-u rainy season in Japan / M.M. Yoshino and A. Murata -- Recent climatic change in Australasia / J.E. Hobbs -- Influence of severe local storms in south-east Queensland / C. Sisson and J.E. Hobbs -- The greenhouse effect and future climatic change / A.B. Pittock.

ISBN

• 1852930101
• 9781852930103

LCCN

88010533

OCLC

• ocm17838271
• 17838271
• SCSB-9615364

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library