Annotated Atlas of Coastal and Marine Winds

By Nazla Bushra and Robert V. Rohli

Annotated Atlas of Coastal and Marine Winds provides a quick-reference on major, prevailing near-surface wind systems, along with concise explanations of the features that cause these winds and a quick qualitative assessment. As accessibility to the most recent and complete atmospheric datasets is often limited, either because they are subscription-based or because they are available only in netCDF format, this book alleviates roadblocks by providing the major, prevailing near-surface wind systems, concise explanations, the features that cause these winds, and a qualitative assessment on the amount of moisture that such winds typically carry to coastal and marine scientists and engineers.

This book will be an ideal resource on coastal and marine winds for a variety of professionals, including coastal scientists, marine scientists, and engineers who study phenomena that are affected directly by weather and climate.

• Presents a simple summary of the atmospheric process in text blocks, alongside each map
• Provides a quick reference on prevailing global and regional wind patterns and moisture transport for understanding pollution patterns, prevailing storm tracks, climatology deviations, meteorology, and atmosphere-ocean relationships
• Includes easy-to-access summary information about prevailing wind directions, sea level pressure, and water vapor flux, all in one place

• Language: English
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Release date: Jan 20, 2021
• ISBN: 9780128203880

Nazla Bushra

Nazla Bushra is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Oceanography & Coastal Sciences at Louisiana State University. Her research interests include the polar vortex and impacts of its variability on surface environmental features, drought in the south-central United States, and Big Data applications in geoscience.

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Annotated Atlas of Coastal and Marine Winds

Nazla Bushra

Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, United StatesDepartment of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences, Louisiana State UniversityBaton RougeLAUnited States

Robert V. Rohli

Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, United StatesDepartment of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences, Louisiana State UniversityBaton RougeLAUnited States

Table of Contents

Cover image

Title page

Copyright

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1. Introduction: The Earth’s surface temperature

Abstract

Chapter 2. Monthly wind patterns: General patterns of surface marine circulation, pressure, and winds

Abstract

Ocean circulation

Monsoon circulations

Chapter 3. The role of atmospheric humidity in global winds

Abstract

Chapter 4. Diurnal wind patterns

Abstract

Chapter 5. Tracks of severe coastal and marine tropical cyclones

Abstract

Index

Copyright

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Acknowledgments

The authors express their gratitude to their partners and colleagues at Elsevier, particularly Ali Afzal-Khan, Samantha Allard, Prem Kumar Kaliamoorthi, Louisa Munro, Unni Kannan Ramu, and the rest of the editorial team for sharing their talents, confidence, patience, and resources through this enjoyable project. The constructive comments and suggestions from three anonymous reviewers are also most appreciated. The authors also thank their families and the Department of Oceanography & Coastal Sciences and College of the Coast & Environment at Louisiana State University for the overwhelming support and encouragement during this project and beyond.

Chapter 1

Introduction

The Earth’s surface temperature

Abstract

This chapter sets the stage for understanding the weather and climate of our coastal environment. It begins with an overview of how the variation in receipt of shortwave radiation from the Sun sets up differences in temperature across the Earth’s surface, and how/why solar shortwave radiation receipt at a place varies with season. The chapter culminates with a series of maps of global mean sea surface temperatures by month of the year.

Keywords

Solar radiant energy; sea surface temperature; SST; Equator; Arctic Circle; Antarctic Circle; Earth–Sun geometry; solstice;