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Professor Adam Scaife is head of Monthly to Decadal Prediction at the UK Met Office and honorary visiting Professor at Exeter University. He investigates mechanisms and predictability of weather and climate and has over 20 years experience in modelling the atmosphere with computer models. He has published around 100 scientific papers in leading journals and his recent studies include exciting new evidence for long range predictability of winter weather. His work has helped understand how the freezing European winters of the 1960s gave way to the mild, wet winters of the 1990s and how other effects like El Niño and solar variability affect our climate. Professor Scaife was recently awarded the Lloyd's of London Science of Risk Research Prize for Climate Change research and the L.G. Groves prize for Meteorology. He regularly communicates the latest meteorological science to the public via television, newspapers and other media.
Content
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- CONTENTS
- Foreword
- Introduction
- The Elements
- GLOSSARY
- Air
- Layers of the Atmosphere
- Seasons
- Clouds
- Rain
- Frost
- Snow
- Hail
- Fog
- Profile: Lewis Fry Richardson
- Pressure, Cyclones & Anticyclones
- Coriolis Force (CF)
- The Balance of Winds
- Local Winds
- The Global Atmosphere
- GLOSSARY
- Air Masses & Weather Fronts
- Jet Streams
- Storm Tracks
- Atmospheric Waves
- Profile: Carl-Gustaf Rossby
- Blocking, Heatwaves & Cold Snaps
- Hadley Cells & Deserts
- Trade Winds
- Rainy Seasons
- Monsoons
- Stratospheric Polar Vortex
- The Sun
- GLOSSARY
- Blue Sky
- Sunshine
- Rainbows
- Mirages, Haloes & Sundogs
- Sunspots & Climate
- Profile: Gilbert T. Walker
- Space Weather
- Weather Watching & Forecasting
- GLOSSARY
- Weather Records
- Profile: Jule Charney
- Weather Satellites & Radar
- Weather Forecasting
- Chaos
- Climate Prediction
- Can We Change the Weather?
- GLOSSARY
- The Ozone Hole
- Global Warming & the Greenhouse Effect
- Profile: Svante Arrhenius
- Acid Rain & Atmospheric Pollution
- Contrails
- Weather Cycles
- GLOSSARY
- The Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO)
- El Niño & La Niña
- North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO)
- Quasi-biennial Oscillation (QBO)
- Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO)
- Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO)
- Past Climates & the Little Ice Age
- Profile: Milutin Milankovitch
- Milankovitch Cycles
- Extreme Weather
- GLOSSARY
- Thunderstorms & Lightning
- Hurricanes & Typhoons
- Profile: Edward Norton Lorenz
- Tornadoes
- Sudden Stratospheric Warming
- Resources
- Notes on Contributors
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
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