**Meet the editor**

Professor Bashir has received his PhD in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering, University of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, 1984. His research interest areas include antennas em radio wave propagation (at the full radio spectrum), optical communication systems, microwave and satellite communication systems, em theory, em scattering computation methods. Professor Bashir has

been invited as an expert by the ITU for presenting "Contribution to ITU-R (Antennas & Propagation), Study Group 3-WP3J contribution 108, accepted on 8 Sept. 2010. The following paper has been chosen as the Best-Of-Book: Electromagnetic Scattering Computation Methods for very small particles: Part II, Inern. Conference on Modeling & Simulation (France based) in Petra, Jordan, 18-20 November, and automatically published in MS Journal,Vol.9, No. 1-2-3, 2008. Two novel papers written by Professor Bashir have been accepted in Springer and will be in press in 2012.

Contents

**Preface IX** 

Akiyoshi Wada

Pallav Ray

Kazuo Saito

Yehia Hafez

Yehia Hafez

Chapter 7 **Blocking Systems Persist over** 

Chapter 4 **Mean State and the MJO in a High** 

Chapter 5 **The JMA Nonhydrostatic Model and Its** 

Chapter 6 **Variability of Intertropical Convergence** 

Chapter 1 **Improving Atmospheric Model** 

Chapter 2 **Applications of Mesoscale Atmospheric** 

Chapter 3 **Numerical Study on the Effect of the Ocean on** 

**Performance on a Multi-Core Cluster System 1**  Carla Osthoff, Roberto Pinto Souto, Fabrício Vilasbôas, Pablo Grunmann, Pedro L. Silva Dias, Francieli Boito,

**Models in Short-Range Weather Predictions During Satellite Launch Campaigns in India 25**  D. Bala Subrahamanyam and Radhika Ramachandran

Rodrigo Kassick, Laércio Pilla, Philippe Navaux, Claudio Schepke, Nicolas Maillard, Jairo Panetta, Pedro Pais Lopes and Robert Walko

**Tropical-Cyclone Intensity and Structural Change 43** 

**Resolution Nested Regional Climate Model 69** 

**Applications to Operation and Research 85** 

**Zone (ITCZ) and Extreme Weather Events 111** 

**Hot Waves over Russia During Summer 2010 137** 

**North Hemisphere and Its Role in Extreme** 

Chapter 8 **Soil-Tree-Atmosphere Water Relations 157** 

Kemachandra Ranatunga
