Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Foreword
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Factor Separation Methodology and the fractional approach
- 3 Investigation of the Factor Separation features for basic mathematical functions
- 4 Factor Separation Methodology and paleoclimates
- 5 Meso-meteorology: Factor Separation examples in atmospheric meso-scale motions
- 6 Using the Alpert–Stein Factor Separation Methodology for land-use land-cover change impacts on weather and climate process with the Regional Atmospheric Modeling System
- 7 Application of Factor Separation to heavy rainfall and cyclogenesis: Mediterranean examples
- 8 Experience in applying the Alpert–Stein Factor Separation Methodology to assessing urban land-use and aerosol impacts on precipitation
- 9 Free and forced thermocline oscillations in Lake Tanganyika
- 10 Application of the Factor Separation Methodology to quantify the effect of waste heat, vapor and pollution on cumulus convection
- 11 The use of the Alpert–Stein Factor Separation Methodology for climate variable interaction studies in hydrological land surface models and crop yield models
- 12 Linear model for the sea breeze
- 13 Experience and conclusions from the Alpert–Stein Factor Separation Methodology
- 14 Tagging systematic errors arising from different components of dynamics and physics in forecast models
- 15 Some difficulties and prospects
- 16 Summary
- Appendix: References employing the Alpert–Stein Factor Separation Methodology
- References
- Index
16 - Summary
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 May 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Foreword
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Factor Separation Methodology and the fractional approach
- 3 Investigation of the Factor Separation features for basic mathematical functions
- 4 Factor Separation Methodology and paleoclimates
- 5 Meso-meteorology: Factor Separation examples in atmospheric meso-scale motions
- 6 Using the Alpert–Stein Factor Separation Methodology for land-use land-cover change impacts on weather and climate process with the Regional Atmospheric Modeling System
- 7 Application of Factor Separation to heavy rainfall and cyclogenesis: Mediterranean examples
- 8 Experience in applying the Alpert–Stein Factor Separation Methodology to assessing urban land-use and aerosol impacts on precipitation
- 9 Free and forced thermocline oscillations in Lake Tanganyika
- 10 Application of the Factor Separation Methodology to quantify the effect of waste heat, vapor and pollution on cumulus convection
- 11 The use of the Alpert–Stein Factor Separation Methodology for climate variable interaction studies in hydrological land surface models and crop yield models
- 12 Linear model for the sea breeze
- 13 Experience and conclusions from the Alpert–Stein Factor Separation Methodology
- 14 Tagging systematic errors arising from different components of dynamics and physics in forecast models
- 15 Some difficulties and prospects
- 16 Summary
- Appendix: References employing the Alpert–Stein Factor Separation Methodology
- References
- Index
Summary
Here, we first present the highlights from each of the applications in Chapters 3–15. Then, we summarize the most outstanding features of the FS method.
Following the introduction and description of the methodology in Chapters 1–2, this book provides a theoretical investigation of the FS method and defines common principles and analytical explorations of the factors and their synergies, Chapter 3. It should be noted that most of the studies employing the FS method did it in the numerical modeling framework, which simply does not allow an analytical investigation of the methodology. Hence, Chapter 3 gives the results of the method application with some basic and simple mathematical functions, which serve as the mathematical basis for investigation of more complicated processes.
Chapter 4 presents a paleoclimate model analysis that allows better understanding of the role of the temperature–albedo feedback, of the greenhouse gases (water vapor and CO2), and of the insolation at the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM). The results are discussed using both the classical feedback analysis and the FS method. This helps to clarify the role the aforementioned factors play in the climate system. In particular, light is being shed on the seeming paradox that winters during mid-Holocene were milder than today in many regions of the Northern Hemisphere although the radiative forcing alone would cause a cooling.
In Chapter 5 we present three examples of factor separation on the medium scale in the atmosphere, often entitled meso-meteorology.
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- Factor Separation in the AtmosphereApplications and Future Prospects, pp. 245 - 249Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011