Annotated Atlas of Coastal and Marine Winds

Nazla Bushra is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Oceanography & Coastal Sciences at Louisiana State University. Her research interests include the polar vortex and impacts of its variability on surface environmental features, drought in the south-central United States, and Big Data applications in geoscience. Robert V. Rohli is Professor in the Department of Oceanography & Coastal Sciences at Louisiana State University. He has authored or co-authored 56 refereed journal articles (27 as first author), four editions of Climatology (Jones and Bartlett), two editions of Exploring Physical Geography (McGraw-Hill), Florida Weather and Climate (University Press of Florida), Louisiana Weather and Climate (Jones and Bartlett), three editions of (Study Guide to Accompany Aguado and Burt’s Understanding Weather and Climate), and co-edited Selected Readings in Applied Climatology (Cambridge Scholars Publishing). His interests are in coastal meteorology, atmospheric circulation variability, and air-sea interactions.

Part I: IntroductionPart II: Monthly Wind PatternsPart III: Diurnal Wind PatternsPart IV: Tracks of Severe Coastal and Marine Storms