Front Cover; Advances in Geophysics, Volume 31; Copyright Page; Contents; Chapter 1. Hydrostatic Airflow over Mountains; 1. Introduction; 2. Regimes of Flow; 3. Mountain Waves; 4. Wave Breaking and Local Hydraulics; 5. Flow Splitting; 6. Wind Shear; 7. Static Stability Variations; 8. Applications; 9. Unsolved Problems; References; Chapter 2. The Forcing and Maintenance of Global Monsoonal Circulations: An Isentropic Analysis; 1. Introduction; 2. Quasi-horizontal Isentropic Mass and Energy Transport; 3. Empirical Evidence for Global Monsoonal Circulations.
4. Theoretical Evidence for Global Monsoonal Circulations5. Comparison of Isobaric and Isentropic Results for Global Monsoonal Circulations; 6. Zonally Averaged Circulations; References; Index.