Circulation weather types as a tool in atmospheric, climate and environmental research / / edited by : Alexandre M. Ramos, David Barriopedro and Emanuel Dutra.

• Superior document: Research Topics
• Author: Emanuel Dutra
• TeilnehmendeR: Ramos, Alexandre M.,; Barriopedro, David.; Dutra, Emanuel.
• Place / Publishing House: Lausanne, Switzerland : : Frontiers Media SA,, 2015.; ©2007-2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Research Topics.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (151 pages) : illustrations; digital, PDF file(s).

Classifications of circulation weather systems have a long history in meteorology and climatology. Starting with manual classifications over specific regions of the globe, these tools (generally called “catalogs of synoptic types”) were restricted mainly to weather forecasting and historical climate variability studies. In the last decades, the advance of computing resources and the availability of datasets have fostered the development of fast and objective methods that process large amount of data. In recent years numerous methods of circulation type classification have been designed, showing their usefulness on a wide range of applications in scientific domains related to weather, climate, and environment. This Research Topic highlights methodological advances in circulation weather types and also their applications to different research areas. The articles included in this research topic show that circulation weather types can be used not only in Europe, where they have been always more frequent, but also applied to other regions of the world.

Table of Contents

Circulation weather types as a tool in atmospheric, climate, and environmental research -- A new circulation type classification based upon Lagrangian air trajectories --Circulation weather types and spatial variability of daily precipitation in the Iberian Peninsula --The influence of circulation weather patterns at different spatial scales on drought variability in the Iberian Peninsula --Multi-decadal classification of synoptic weather types, observed trends and links to rainfall characteristics over Saudi Arabia --From daily climatic scenarios to hourly atmospheric forcing fields to force Soil-Vegetation-Atmosphere transfer models --Cold surge activity over the Gulf of Mexico in a warmer climate --A climatology of low level wind regimes over Central America using a weather type classification approach --Circulation patterns identified by spatial rainfall and ocean wave fields in Southern Africa --Weather types across the Maritime Continent: from the diurnal cycle to interannual variations --A synoptic climatology of heavy rain events in the Lake Eyre and Lake Frome catchments.