| List of plates | p. viii |
| Preface | p. ix |
| Acknowledgments | p. xi |
| The climate system and its study | p. 1 |
| Introduction | p. 3 |
| The global climate system | p. 3 |
| Time and space scales of weather and climate processes | p. 10 |
| Dynamic and synoptic climatology | p. 13 |
| The structure of the book | p. 14 |
| Climate data and their analysis | p. 16 |
| Synoptic meteorological data | p. 16 |
| Remotely sensed data | p. 17 |
| Climate variables and their statistical description | p. 31 |
| Analytical tools for spatial data | p. 40 |
| Time series | p. 63 |
| Empirical orthogonal function analysis, clustering, and classification | p. 78 |
| Eulerian and Lagrangian methods | p. 84 |
| Dynamic climatology | p. 107 |
| Global climate and the general circulation | p. 109 |
| Planetary controls | p. 109 |
| Basic controls of the atmospheric circulation and its maintenance | p. 113 |
| Circulation cells | p. 143 |
| The Earth's geography | p. 153 |
| Climate system feedbacks | p. 155 |
| General circulation models | p. 161 |
| The global circulation--description | p. 166 |
| Centers of action | p. 209 |
| Global climatic features | p. 223 |
| Air masses | p. 235 |
| Potential vorticity | p. 240 |
| Large-scale circulation and climatic characteristics | p. 263 |
| Time-averaged circulation | p. 263 |
| Jetstreams | p. 270 |
| Planetary waves | p. 278 |
| Zonal index | p. 302 |
| Zonal and blocking flow modes | p. 308 |
| Blocking mechanisms | p. 313 |
| Low-frequency circulation variability and persistence | p. 322 |
| Intraseasonal oscillations | p. 332 |
| Spectral harmonic functions | p. 340 |
| Eliassen--Palm flux | p. 341 |
| Normal modes | p. 342 |
| Global teleconnections | p. 358 |
| Pressure oscillations and teleconnection patterns | p. 358 |
| The Southern Oscillation and El Nino | p. 361 |
| ENSO mechanisms | p. 376 |
| Teleconnections with ENSO | p. 384 |
| Extratropical teleconnection patterns | p. 396 |
| North Atlantic Oscillation | p. 397 |
| North Pacific Oscillation | p. 403 |
| Zonally symmetric oscillations | p. 404 |
| The southern hemisphere | p. 408 |
| Tropical--extratropical teleconnections | p. 410 |
| Teleconnections and synoptic-scale activity | p. 414 |
| Time-scale aspects of teleconnections | p. 414 |
| Interannual to interdecadal oscillations | p. 418 |
| Partitioning between equatorially symmetric and antisymmetric components | p. 424 |
| Synoptic climatology | p. 439 |
| Synoptic systems | p. 441 |
| Early studies of extratropical systems | p. 441 |
| Climatology of cyclones and anticyclone | p. 442 |
| Development of cyclones | p. 450 |
| Storm tracks | p. 465 |
| Satellite-based climatologies of synoptic features | p. 476 |
| Synoptic-scale systems in the tropics | p. 506 |
| The Q-vector formulation | p. 524 |
| Synoptic climatology and its applications | p. 547 |
| Synoptic pattern classification | p. 547 |
| Subjective typing procedures | p. 549 |
| Objective typing procedures | p. 551 |
| Principal catalogs and their uses | p. 561 |
| Regional applications | p. 574 |
| Analogs | p. 578 |
| Seasonal structure | p. 578 |
| Climatic trends | p. 587 |
| Environmental applications | p. 589 |
| Retrospect and prospect | p. 604 |
| Further reading | p. 606 |
| Index | p. 611 |
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