Agroclimatology ; Applied climatology ; Citrus ; Florida ; Freezing ; Gardening ; Model ; Synoptic climatology ; United States
This review begins with a report on a talk by Changnon (1991) that discusses some of the problems facing applied climatology and which raises the issue of awareness of applied climatology among scientists in various disciplines. This article
will also review two specific areas of recent research progress in applied climatology and will conclude by outlining briefly examples of applied research efforts at some of the USA regional climate centers.
Spatial and temporal climatology of snowstorms in the Deep South
Atmospheric dynamics ; Climatology ; Precipitation ; Rainstorm ; Snow ; United States
This study evaluates the snowfall climatology of the Deep South by providing an inventory of significant snowstorms and describing their spatial and temporal characteristics over recent decades.
Synoptic climatology : themes, applications, and prospects
Atmospheric circulation ; Climatology ; Concept ; History of sciences ; Model ; Synoptic climatology ; Weather type
Synoptic climatology is defined as the study of climates from the viewpoint of their atmospheric circulation components and emphasizes the connection between circulation, weather phenomena, and climatic differentiation. The field is seen as having
Applied climatology ; Atmospheric pollution ; Heat island ; Impact ; Model ; Precipitation ; Temperature ; Urban climate ; Vegetation
This report on recent work in applied climatology will examine some key areas of urban climatology and meteorology, particularly those concerned with understanding more fully the processes that produce urban climates. Contemporary approaches
Atmospheric circulation ; Atmospheric dynamics ; Climatic variation ; Climatology ; Global change ; Model ; Mountain climate ; United States ; Urban climate
This paper briefly reviews four selected areas in which geographer-climatologists have made, and continue to make, significant contributions to physical and boundary-layer climatology : 1) mountain and alpine, 2) urban, 3) land-surface, and 4) large
-scale physical climatology. This review reveals several mutual concerns of sampling, methods of analysis, and modeling that are evident across the range of physical and boundary-layer climatology.
Self-organizing maps (SOMs) are a relative newcomer to synoptic climatology. In this paper, the AA. review the major developments and climatological applications of SOMs in the literature. The SOM can be used in synoptic climatological analysis
. This improved visualization has led to SOMs becoming an increasingly popular tool in various research with climatological applications from other disciplines as well.
Applied climatology ; Climatic variation ; Climatology ; Global change ; History of sciences ; Human bioclimatology ; Model ; Remote sensing ; Synoptic climatology ; Twentieth Century ; Urban climate
At the beginning of this half-century, the synoptic (or dynamic) climatology was rising, but its diffusion was slow and contested. In the 1960s, technological changes (as satellites and computers) allow to carry out fast improvements and to regard
the climate as a system; also the oceans, the solid crust of the Earth, the ice extents were considered among its elements. So a global climatology was founded. A different trend addressed today's climatology towards applied purposes (support of economic
activities), while sciences rose as historical climatology, urban climatology and human bioclimatology.
Atmospheric circulation ; Atmospheric dynamics ; Climatic variation ; Climatology ; Concept ; History of sciences ; Model ; Weather type
Some aspects of the history of dynamic climatology are traced both forwards and backwards from the first use of the term in 1929. It is suggested that current emphasis in this subfield is placed upon atmospheric modelling.
Assessing impacts of a climatologically unique year (1990) in the Midwest
Applied climatology ; Farming;Agriculture ; Flood ; Impact ; Midwest ; Model ; Precipitation ; Temperature ; United States
One objective of this study was to illustrate the types of information on weather and impacts that can be quickly gathered and why it is seen as useful. The second objective was to assess those first-order impacts that occurred in a climatologically
Suomen ilmastoalueet. (The climatological regions of Finland)
In this study, Finland was divided into climatological regions on the basis of a synthesis of the main climatological properties. These properties were chosen to serve for forestry, agriculture, biology, limnology, winter sports and heating