TY - BOOK ID - 145178314 TI - Circulation weather types as a tool in atmospheric, climate and environmental research AU - Emanuel Dutra AU - Ramos, Alexandre M. AU - Barriopedro, David. AU - Dutra, Emanuel. PY - 2015 PB - Frontiers Media SA DB - UniCat KW - Meteorology KW - Climatology KW - Environmental sciences. KW - Saudi Arabia KW - Synoptic climatology KW - Central America KW - Lagrangian air trajectories KW - circulation weather types KW - Surface climate KW - extreme events KW - climate variability KW - Maritime Continent KW - Australia KW - Research. KW - Methodology. KW - Saudi Arabia KW - Synoptic climatology KW - Central America KW - Lagrangian air trajectories KW - circulation weather types KW - Surface climate KW - extreme events KW - climate variability KW - Maritime Continent KW - Australia UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:145178314 AB - Classifications of circulation weather systems have a long history in meteorology and climatology. Starting with manual classifications over specific regions of the globe, these tools (generally called “catalogs of synoptic types”) were restricted mainly to weather forecasting and historical climate variability studies. In the last decades, the advance of computing resources and the availability of datasets have fostered the development of fast and objective methods that process large amount of data. In recent years numerous methods of circulation type classification have been designed, showing their usefulness on a wide range of applications in scientific domains related to weather, climate, and environment. This Research Topic highlights methodological advances in circulation weather types and also their applications to different research areas. The articles included in this research topic show that circulation weather types can be used not only in Europe, where they have been always more frequent, but also applied to other regions of the world. ER -