Regionalizing Global Climate Variations: A Study of the Southeastern US Regional Climate

1 - Regional climate in a global context
	Chapter outline
	1.1 - Climate without borders
	1.2 - What is southeastern United States?
	1.3 - The basis for regional climate
	1.4 - Features of standing eddies
	1.5 - Generation of stationary waves
	1.6 - A practical application of standing waves
2 - Land–atmosphere interactions
	Chapter outline
	2.1 - What is land–atmosphere interaction?
	2.2 - Seasonality of the southeastern US hydroclimate
	2.3 - The soil moisture and precipitation relationship
	2.4 - Importance of evapotranspiration
	2.5 - Estimating evapotranspiration
	2.6 - The influence of land cover and land use change
3 - The North Atlantic Subtropical High
	Chapter outline
	3.1 - Seasonal variations of the North Atlantic Subtropical High
	3.2 - The Sverdrup vorticity balance
	3.3 - The maintenance of the North Atlantic Subtropical High
	3.4 - The trade wind inversion
	3.5 - The variations of the Florida sea breeze
	3.6 - The remote influence of the Equatorial Amazon
The intra-Americas seas
	Chapter outline
	4.1 The intra-Americas seas and the western hemisphere warm pool
	4.2 Seasonal variations of the Atlantic warm pool
	4.3 The upper ocean heat budget of the Atlantic warm pool
	4.4 The response of the atmospheric circulation to the Atlantic warm pool
	4.5 The impact of the Atlantic warm pool variations
	4.6 The barrier layers of the intra-Americas seas
	4.7 The Loop Current
	4.8 The Gulf Stream
	4.9 Air–sea interaction in the Gulf of Mexico
	4.10 The modes of variations of the intra-Americas seas
	4.11 Bias in climate models
5 - Florida’s climate
	Chapter outline
	5.1 - The seasonal cycle of rainfall over Florida
	5.2 - The seasonal cycle of the circulation field
	5.3 - The seasonal cycle of the upper ocean surrounding Florida
	5.4 - The winter season of Florida
	5.5 - Variations in the length of the seasons
	5.6 - The diurnal variations
	5.7 - Impact of the Loop Current on terrestrial climate over Peninsular Florida
6 - Teleconnections
	Chapter outline
	6.1 - Teleconnections
	6.2 - The ENSO phenomenon
	6.3 - The theory of ENSO teleconnection
	6.4 - ENSO teleconnection over North America
	6.5 - ENSO teleconnection with Atlantic tropical cyclone activity
	6.6 - Variations in ENSO teleconnection over North America
	6.7 - The NAO
	6.8 - The PDO
	6.9 - The AMO
7 - The North Atlantic tropical cyclones
	Chapter outline
	7.1 - The unique clusters of North Atlantic tropical cyclones
	7.2 - Regional features of landfalling tropical cyclones
	7.3 - Anomalous Atlantic tropical cyclone seasons
		7.3.1 - The 2010 hurricane season
		7.3.2 - The 2005 hurricane season
	7.4 - Impact of landfalling tropical cyclones on terrestrial rainfall
	7.5 - The variations of the translation speeds of Atlantic tropical cyclones
	7.6 - Understanding intensity of landfalling Atlantic tropical cyclones
	7.7 - The metric for tropical cyclone intensity
	7.8 - Metric for measuring Atlantic tropical cyclone seasonal activity
8 - Tornadoes
	Chapter outline
	8.1 - US tornadoes
	8.2 - Nomenclature of thunderstorms
	8.3 - Fujita scale
	8.4 - Tornado formation
	8.5 - Discriminatory environmental factors
	8.6 - Influence of the large-scale climate variations
9 - Droughts and floods
	Chapter outline
	9.1 - Defining droughts
	9.2 - The US drought monitor
	9.3 - A recipe for US droughts
	9.4 - Droughts of the southeastern United States
	9.5 - The Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint (ACF) River Basin
	9.6 - Southeastern US droughts and landfalling tropical cyclones
	9.7 - Flash droughts
	9.8 - Floods
	9.9 - Flash floods
	9.10 - Storm surge
10 - Climate change
	Chapter outline
	10.1 - The warming hole
	10.2 - Tornadoes
	10.3 - Atlantic tropical cyclones
	10.4 - Heat waves
	10.5 - Extreme winter temperatures
	10.6 - Extreme rainfall and droughts
	10.7 - Loop Current
	10.8 - Sea level rise