Synoptic paleoclimatology : the weather regime approach from the tropics to the poles / Ian D. Goodwin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goodwin, Ian D., Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Paleoclimatology.

Synoptic climatology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 756 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2025.

Summary:

Projecting regional climate change over this century and the next remains challenging due to the chaotic nature of weather, but it is made more reliable through reconstructions of paleoweather in relation to climate change in atmospheric and ocean circulation, winds, waves, currents, and precipitation. This primer applies a cross-disciplinary treatment of large-scale and synoptic climatology to the reconstruction of past climates under the umbrella of synoptic paleoclimatology, providing the theory and application of synoptic paleoclimatology for the study and prediction of future climate evolution. Climate proxy and data-model assimilation methodologies are described in detail, focusing on coasts, the surface ocean, glaciers, and ice sheets. This book also presents a state-of-the-art synthesis of regional climate history across the Southern Hemisphere, including tropical coral reefs, coasts, alpine glaciers, and Antarctica. This book will be invaluable to advanced students, researchers, and practitioners in climatology, paleoclimatology, meteorology, coastal geoscience, glaciology, oceanography, global change, and climate risk assessment.

Contents:

Cover

Half-title page

Title page

Copyright page

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgements

Part I Atmosphere-Ocean Circulation and Synoptic Paleoclimatology

1 A Synoptic View of Paleoclimate

1.1 Synoptic Paleoclimatology: A Bridge between Weather and Paleoclimate

1.2 Latitudinal Insolation, Temperature Gradients, and Paleoclimate Change

1.3 The Atmospheric Pressure Field and the Wind-Driven Ocean

1.3.1 The Global Atmospheric Pressure Field

1.3.2 The Wind-Driven Ocean

1.3.3 The Ocean Surface Mixed Layer

1.4 Climate Modes of Variability

1.4.1 Overview of Climate Modes

1.4.2 Global and Regional Climate Mode Teleconnections

1.4.2.1 Teleconnections with the Atmospheric Bridge

1.4.2.2 Teleconnections with the Oceanic Tunnel

1.4.2.3 Teleconnections with the Oceanic Super Gyres and Leakage

1.4.2.4 Thermal Bipolar Seesaw

1.4.2.5 Teleconnection Non-stationarity and Implications for Paleoclimatology

1.5 Macroweather, Earth System Memory and the Proxy Climate World

1.6 The Way Forward and Scope of the Book

2 Atmosphere-Ocean Circulation, Heat and Moisture Budgets

2.1 Atmospheric Circulation and Energy Balance

2.2 Southern Hemisphere Atmospheric Circulation

2.2.1 Low Latitudes

2.2.1.1 Tropical Zonal Pressure Gradient and the Walker Circulation

2.2.1.2 Tropical Easterlies

2.2.1.3 Near Equatorial Trough and Westerlies

2.2.1.4 Intertropical Convergence Zone or Tropical Rain Belt

2.2.1.5 ITCZ over Ocean Basins and the Maritime Continent

2.2.1.6 ITCZ over Africa

2.2.1.7 ITCZ over South America

2.2.1.8 Tropical and Subtropical Monsoon Circulation

2.2.1.8.1 Australian Summer Monsoon (ASM)

2.2.1.8.2 East African Monsoon (EAM) and South-West Indian Ocean Monsoon

2.2.1.8.3 Central Pacific Monsoon

2.2.1.8.4 South American Monsoon System (SAMS).

2.2.2 Mid- and High Latitudes

2.2.2.1 Circumpolar Trough

2.2.2.2 Antarctic Coastal and Coastal-Slope Winds

2.2.2.3 Southern Hemisphere Annual and Semi-Annual Oscillation

2.3 Climate Mode Dynamics and Air-Sea Interaction

2.3.1 Tropical-Subtropical Ocean and El Niño-Southern Oscillation Dynamics

2.3.2 Southern Ocean and Southern Annular Mode Dynamics

Part II Synoptic Circulation and Weather Regimes

3 Large-Scale to Synoptic Circulation of the Southern Hemisphere

3.1 Large-Scale Circulation: A Framework for Proxy Climate Resolution

3.1.1 Westerly Vortex and Jetstreams

3.1.2 Vortex Asymmetry and the South Pacific Split Jet

3.1.3 Planetary Wave Modes and Indices

3.1.4 Anticyclone, Cyclone, Storm Tracks, and Blocking Climatology: Methods and Shifts in a Warming Climate

3.2 Synoptic-Scale Circulation

3.2.1 Air Mass Characteristics

3.2.2 Tropical Depressions and Cyclone Storm Tracks

3.2.3 Subtropical Cyclones and Easterly Waves: Blocking and Explosive Storms

3.2.3.1 Eastern Australian and Tasman Sea Subtropical Cyclones

3.2.3.2 Subtropical Cyclones in the South Atlantic

3.2.4 Mid-Latitude Frontal Lows, Cut-Off Lows, and Cold Air Outbreaks

3.2.4.1 Mid-latitude Frontal Lows and Depressions

3.2.4.2 Mid-latitude Cut-off Lows and Cold-Air Outbreaks

3.2.4.2.1 Cut-off Lows

3.2.4.2.1.1 Cold-Air Outbreaks

3.2.5 Tropical-Extratropical Interaction: Cloud Bands, Atmospheric Rivers, and Warm Air Incursions

3.2.5.1 Tropical-Temperate Troughs and Cloudbands

3.2.5.2 Atmospheric Rivers

4 Regional Ocean Wind, Wave, and Sea-Level Climate of the Southern Hemisphere

4.1 Ocean Wind Climates

4.1.1 Historical Marine Climatology

4.1.2 Southern Hemisphere Ocean Basin Near-Surface Winds.

4.1.3 Coastal Winds, Low-Level Jets, and Shelf Currents (Shear and Curvature Vorticity, Upwelling and Downwelling, Marine Heat Waves)

4.1.3.1 Western Australian CLLJ

4.1.3.2 Benguela CLLJ, Namibia

4.1.3.3 Peru-Chile CLLJ, South America

4.1.3.4 Eastern Coastal Winds and Boundary Currents

4.1.3.5 Antarctic Coastal Winds, Shelf Currents and Sea-Ice Polynya

4.1.4 Island and Archipelago Wakes

4.2 Ocean Wave Climates

4.2.1 Wind-wave Generation

4.2.2 Wave Propagation along Great Circle Routes

4.2.3 Statistical Wave Climatology

4.2.4 Regional Wave Climates

4.3 Coastal-Shelf Sea-Level and Ocean Climates

4.3.1 Global Processes Influencing Regional Sea Level

4.3.1.1 Eustatic Sea Level, Glacio-Isostatic Adjustment and Sea-Level Fingerprints

4.3.1.2 Steric Sea-Level Height

4.3.1.3 Ocean Basin Wind Stress and Dynamic Sea Level Associated with Climate Modes

4.4 Regional-Scale Processes Controlling Dynamic and Steric Sea Level

4.4.1 Eastern Australian Shelf

4.4.2 Western and Southern Australian Shelves

4.4.3 South African Shelf

4.4.4 Brazilian, Uruguayan, and Argentinian Shelves

4.4.5 Antarctic Shelf

5 Regional Climate and Weather Regimes

5.1 Downscaling Mean State Centres of Action to Climate Mode Phase and Weather Regimes

5.1.1 North Atlantic-European Example: Climate Regimes, Weather Regimes, and the North Atlantic Oscillation

5.2 Regional Climate and Weather Regimes Associated with Modes of Variability and Climate Impacts

5.2.1 Tropical-Mid-Latitude Indo-Pacific Region

5.2.1.1 Maritime Continent

5.2.1.2 Northern and Central Australia

5.2.1.3 South Pacific Convergence Zone

5.2.1.4 Tasman Sea, New Zealand and Southwest Pacific

5.2.1.5 Eastern Pacific

5.2.2 Tropical-Mid-Latitude South Atlantic Ocean Region

5.2.2.1 Brazil to Uruguay.

5.2.2.2 Southwest Africa and Benguela Niño

5.2.3 Tropical-Mid-Latitude South Indian Ocean Region

5.2.3.1 Southern Africa

5.2.3.2 East Africa

5.2.3.3 Indian Ocean, Subtropical Western Australia and Ningaloo Niño

5.2.3.4 Southwest Western Australia and Southeast Australia

5.2.4 Southern Ocean and Coastal Antarctica

5.2.4.1 South Indian Ocean Sector

5.2.4.2 South Pacific Ocean Sector (Ross Sea, Amundsen Sea and Bellingshausen Sea Lows)

5.2.4.3 South Atlantic Ocean Sector (Patagonia and Antarctic Peninsula)

5.2.5 Antarctic Region

Part III Synoptic Paleoclimate from the Natural Archive - Environmental Impact to PaleoWeather Regimes

6 The Coastal Geomorphic Archive of Ocean Wave Climate and Paleoweather

6.1 Introduction to the Coastal Geomorphic Archive of Wave Climate

6.2 Nearshore Wave Climate

6.2.1 Wave Refraction

6.2.2 Wave Diffraction

6.3 The Coastal Planform and Depositional Record of Ocean Wave and Wind Climate

6.3.1 The Embayed Coastal Planform and the Headland-Bay-Beach Barrier

6.3.1.1 Salients, Tombolos and Forelands

6.3.2 The Open Coastal Planform, Longshore Sediment Transport System, and Sand Barriers

6.3.3 Headland Spit and Cuspate Cape Planforms

6.3.4 Island and Cay Planforms

6.3.5 Barrier Estuary Inlet Planforms

6.3.6 Delta Coasts and Deltaic Plain Planforms

6.4 The Trangressive Dunefield Record of Coastal Wind Fields

6.4.1 Coastal Transgressive Dunefield Morphology

6.4.2 Dune Alignment and Airflow Dynamics

6.4.3 Resultant Wind-Field Reconstruction

6.5 The Coastal Geomorphic Record of Marine Storms

6.5.1 Storm Reconstruction

6.6 Approaches to Transforming Coastal Signal to Paleo-Wave Climate and Synoptic Typing

6.6.1 Wave Transformation Modelling

6.6.2 Geometric Methods

6.6.3 Coastal Evolution Modelling.

6.6.4 Synoptic Typing of Regional Wave Climate

6.7 Attribution of Paleo-Wave Direction by Back-Trajectory Analysis to Identify Paleoweather Regimes

7 The Tropical Archive of Marine Paleoweather, Climate, and Sea Level

7.1 A Biogeographic and Morphological Framework for the Coral Reef Archive

7.1.1 Coral Biogeography, Sea Level, and Coral Reefs

7.1.2 Coral Species, Growth Patterns, and Sampling Approaches

7.1.2.1 Coral Growth, Skeleton Density and Seasonal-Annual Banding, and Sampling Approaches

7.1.2.2 Dating and Geochronologies

7.2 The Coral Archive, Climate Modes, and Sea-Level Variability

7.2.1 Proxy Calibration to the Instrumental Record and Ocean Reanalysis Data

7.2.2 Sea Surface Temperature from Stable-Isotope and Trace-Element Analysis

7.2.3 Seawater Stable Oxygen Isotopes, Sea Surface Salinity, and Hydroclimate

7.2.4 Cloud Cover and Ocean Circulation Tracers

7.2.5 Coupled Sea-Surface Temperature, Sea-Surface Salinity, and Sea-Level Variability from Coral Microatolls

7.2.6 Examples of Coral-Based Reconstructions of Hydroclimate Associated with the South Pacific Convergence Zone and Decadal Variability

7.3 Tropical Hydroclimate from Speleothem, Tree-Ring and Sediment Archives

7.3.1 Proxy Hydroclimate from the Speleothem Archive

7.3.1.1 Examples of Speleothem-Based Reconstructions of Hydroclimate Associated with the South Pacific Convergence Zone and PDO/IPO Variability

7.3.2 Proxy Hydroclimate from the Tropical Tree-Ring Archive

7.4 Coral Archive of Tradewind and Tropical Storm Paleoweather Regimes

7.4.1 Coral Archive of Tradewind Strength and Reversals

7.4.2 Coral Archive of Tropical Storms and Flooding

7.4.3 Coral Reef and Coastal Records of Tropical Cyclone Events

7.5 The Archive of Shelf Wind, Boundary Currents, Marine Heat Waves, and Coastal Niño.

7.5.1 Coral Records of Boundary Currents, Continental Shelf Winds, Upwelling and Downwelling Currents, and Marine Heat Waves.

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ISBN:

1-108-89710-X

1-108-89732-0

1-108-89274-4

OCLC:

1543148731