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082			_a551.6 _bBAR/S
245		0	_aSynoptic and dynamic climatology/ _cBarry, Roger G.
250			_a1st ed.
260			_aLondon: _bRoutledge, _c2001.
300			_a620 p.
505			_a 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.
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