Models for Tropical Climate Dynamics

Boualem Khouider got a Bachlor's degree in the analysis of Partial Differential Equations from the University of Algiers in 1990, a PhD in applied mathematics in the area of turbulent combustion, from the University of Montreal in 2002, and completed a post doctoral fellowship at Courant Institute, New York University, in applied mathematics and atmospheric science. He is a professor of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Victoria, which he joined since year 2003.

“A well-organised glossary and an exhaustive bibliography make this book an invaluable reference for researchers in the still not well understood field of tropical atmospheric climate.” (José Miguel Pacheco Castelao, Mathematical Reviews, September, 2020)“It is a valuable literature not only for professionals in climatology, but also for graduate students as a useful text book with numerous examples of practical exercise.” (Vladimir Čadež, zbMATH 1428.86010, 2020)

• Part I Background and Preliminaries: Chapter 1- The Governing Equations and Dry Dynamics.- Chapter 2- Moisture and moist thermodynamics.- Chapter 3- Observations of tropical climate dynamics and convectively coupled waves.- Chapter 4- Introduction to stochastic processes, Markov chains, and Monte Carlo Simulation.- Part II The Deterministic Multicloud Model: Chapter 5- Simple models for moist gravity waves.- Chapter 6- The Multicloud Model with Congestus Preconditioning.- Chapter 7- Convectively Coupled Equatorial Waves in the Multicloud Model.- Chapter 8- Convective Momentum Transport and Upscale Interactions in the MJO.- Chapter 9- Implementation of the Multicloud Model in an Aquaplanet Global Climate Model.- Part III The Stochastic Multicloud Model: SMCM: Chapter 10- Stochastic birth and death models for clouds.- Chapter 11- Implementation of the SMCM in a Global Climate Model.- Chapter 12- SMCM in CFS: Improving the tropical modes of variability.- Glossary.- References.