Tropical cyclones are among the most destructive natural hazards on the earth， causing serious ecological and human damage. Tropical cyclones are one of the most fascinating weather phenomena for many people， not only because of the vast amounts of serious ecological and human damage they cause， but because of the great scientific challenges they pose to us as a complex atmospheric system. Tropical cyclone genesis， although an area with many researches， remains a highly debatable and unresolved field. Existing theories have not easily explained the relative rareness of tropical cyclone formation. The South China Sea （SCS）， which is a large semi-enclosed marginal sea in the western Pacific Ocean， is one region where tropical cyclones occur frequently. Compared with tropical cyclones in other regions， there is relatively little work on tropical cyclone genesis over the SCS.This book presents the researches investigating several issues pertaining to tropical cyclone genesis over the SCS， one region under the significant influence of monsoon. Analyses of satellite observations and reanalysis datasets plus numerical simulations are applied to investigate the mechanism of tropical cyclone genesis over the SCS. The SCS provides us one perfect experimental field to study how monsoon impacts tropical cyclone activities.
作者簡(jiǎn)介
王磊，Male， PhD. Dr. Lei Wang is a professor in the department of Oceanography ， Guangdong Ocean University. His research is about air-sea interactions， climate changes and dynamics of the ocean and atmosphere. He has studied and worked in Hong Kong University of Science and Technology， University of Hawaii， and University of California at Irvine. He has been the principle investigator for morethan ten research projects， including the National Natural Science Foundation of China ， Guangdong Natural Science Foundation，thefoundation for returned scholars of Ministry of Education of China， and the research fund for the doctoral program of Higher Education for Youths. He has published more than 30 papers in academic journals ， including Nature Communications， Journal of Climate， Geophysical Research Letters， Deep Sea Research l， Tellus A and other important journals . He is the committee number of Guangdong Meteorological Society and the reviewer for several academic journals.
圖書目錄
Chapter 1 Introduction 1．1 Definition of tropical cyclone and tropical cyclone genesis 1．2 Review of studies on tropical cyclone genesis 1．2． 1 Climatological conditions for tropical cyclone genesis 1．2．2 Synoptic-scale conditions associated with tropical cyclone genesis 1．2．3 Theoretical models for tropical cyclone genesis 1．3 Tropical cyclone genesis over the South China Sea 1．4 Objectives and organization of this study Chapter 2 Climatology of environmental conditions and geographical distributions of tropical cyclone genesis in the SCS 2．1 Introduction 2．2 Data 2．3 Climatology of environmental conditions and tropical cyclone genesis over the SCS 2．3．1 Upper ocean thermal structure 2．3．2 The columnar water vapor 2．3．3 500 hPa relative humidity 2．3．4 Relative vorticity of ocean surface winds 2．3．5 200hPadivergence 2．3．6 500 hPa vertical velocity 2．3．7 The vertical shear of horizontal winds 2．3．8 Outgoing longwave radiation 2．4 Summary and conclusion …… Chapter 3 Seasonal variation of tropical cyclone genesis over the South China Sea Chapter 4 Inter annual variation of tropical cyclone genesis over the South China Sea Chapter 5 Environmental conditions prior to tropical cyclone formation Chapter 6 Comparison of non-developing versus developing tropical disturbances over the SCS Chapter 7 Numerical simulation of the genesis of one tropical cyclone over the SCS-Typhoon Durian （2001） Chapter 8 One mechariusm for tropical disturbance development over the South China Sea：Coupling of Lower-Upper Troposphere （CLUT） References
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