Synoptic and dynamic climatology/ 
Barry, Roger G. 
 - 1st ed. 
 - London:  Routledge,  2001. 
 - 620 p. 
<br/><br/>	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. 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780415031165 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>551.6  / BAR/S