Chapter 8: Atmospheric Circulation and Pressure Distributions
Single-Cell Model:
Explains Why There are Tropical Easterlies
Breakdown of the Single Cell è Three-Cell Model
Atmospheric Circulation: Zonal-mean Views
Thermally Direct/Indirect Cells
Is the Three-Cell Model Realistic?
Upper Tropospheric Circulation
Global Distribution of Deserts
Subtropical and Polar Jet Streams
Jet Streams Near the Western US
Monsoon: Another Sea/Land-Related Circulation of the Atmosphere
Six Great Current Circuits in the World Ocean
Step 2: Ekman Layer
(frictional
force + Coriolis Force)
Ekman Spiral – A Result of Coriolis Force
Step 3: Geostrophic
Current
(Pressure Gradient Force + Corioils Foce)
Global Warming and Thermohaline Circulation
Mid-Deglacial Cooling: The Younger Dryas
Interactions Within Climate System
Walker Circulation and Ocean Temperature
El Nino and Southern Oscillation
Coupled Atmosphere-Ocean System
Delayed Oscillator: Wind Forcing
Wave Propagation and Reflection
Positive and Negative Phases of NAO
North Atlantic
Oscillation
= Arctic Oscillation
= Annular Mode