Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Chapter -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 -- Chapter -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 -- Chapter -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
Chapter -4 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 -- Chapter -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 -- Chapter -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 -- Chapter -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
