Weather Analysis Forecast Physical Quantity Calculation Basics

Author: Liu Jianwen et al. (Editor-in-Chief)
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Publish Date: 2005-06-01
Features: This book collects over 90 physical quantities for weather analysis and forecasting, and is divided into 10 parts and 36 chapters. Part introduces the basics of weather analysis and commonly used physical quantities. Parts 2 to 10 are sequentially introduced as follows: stability and stability indices, available potential energy, quantities related to vertical wind shear, mechanisms of unstable energy storage, triggering mechanisms, thermodynamic and dynamic combined parameters, severe convective weather indices, fronts and frontogenesis, baroclinic energy, rotational wind, and divergence wind. The book provides a relatively comprehensive introduction to the concepts, physical significance, and calculation methods of each physical quantity, and also gives examples and explanations for some physical quantities. The weather analysis physical quantities collected in the book are systematic and comprehensive, especially collecting multiple parameters and indices developed in recent years for the analysis and forecasting of severe convective weather. This book can be used as a reference for meteorological forecasters and researchers, and can also serve as a reference and tool book for university students and postgraduate students in their learning and research.