Global and Regional Climate Interaction: The Caspian Sea Experience
The Caspian Sea is the world's largest inland body of water both in area and volume. Its drainage area is approximately 3. 5 million square kilometers, extending 2500 km in length, 35°N to 600N, and on average 1000 km wide, 400E 0 to 60E (Fig. 1). Located in a large continental depression about...
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| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
1994, 1994
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1994 |
| Series: | Water Science and Technology Library
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Seasonal and Longer-Term Changes of Climatic Characteristics in the Caspian Sea Basin
- 2.1 General climate characteristics
- 2.2 Long-term changes in the seasonal cycle
- 2.3 Interannual and longer-term changes
- 2.4 Temporal changes in the frequency structure
- 3 The Caspian Sea and Climatic Processes in the Northern Hemisphere
- 3.1 Teleconnections
- 3.2 Atmospheric circulation patterns during a rise and decline in the CSL
- 3.3 The role of the North Atlantic
- 3.4 The extraordinary rise in the CSL after 1977
- 3.5 Climate and CSL changes during the past millennium
- 4 Forecasting the Caspian Sea Level
- 4.1 Causes of the CSL fluctuations
- 4.2 Comparative analysis of ‘climatological’ methods
- 4.3 Instability of correlation relationships
- 4.4 An approach based on probabilistic logic
- 4.5 Experimental results
- 5 Caspian Sea Level and Anticipated Global Warming
- 5.1 Global climate modelling
- 5.2 Paleoclimate analogues
- 5.3 Climate of the 1980s and early 1990s
- Concluding Remarks
- Appendix Fortran-Program for Constructing a Linkage Tree
- References