ATM OCN (Meteorology) 100

PLANETARY SCALE CIRCULATION
(continued)
PART III - MONSOONS, EL NIÑO - LA NINA VARIATIONS

Summer 2004

Lecture #18 Scheduled for:

15 JUL 2004 (R)

Recommended Readings from Moran (2002):

pages.

D. PLANETARY-SCALE ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION: THEORETICAL ASPECTS

Historical Perspective
Recent Theories
Overall Observed Wind Structure in the Vertical
Resultant Causes
Role of The Planetary Scale Atmospheric Circulation
Consequences

Heat Transfer
Water Transport
Momentum Transport

E. VARIATIONS IN THE PLANETARY SCALE CIRCULATION

Seasonal Changes in Planetary Scale Circulation
Global Differences
Multi-annual Oscillations

El Niño - Southern Oscillation [ENSO Events]
La Niña

F. MONSOON CIRCULATION

Definition
Situation
Monsoon Climatology
Causes

Links to Other References:

El Niño Theme pages from NOAA/TOGA-TOA
NOAA La Niña theme page
The El Niño module from Weather World 2010 (Univ. of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign)

Latest revision: 2 August 2004 (0250 UTC)

Produced by Edward J. Hopkins, Ph.D.

Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences

University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison, WI 53706

hopkins@meteor.wisc.edu

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