Climate Dynamics (eBook)

Why Does Climate Vary?

De-Zheng Sun, Frank Bryan (Herausgeber)

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2013 | 1. Auflage
216 Seiten
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-118-67243-3 (ISBN)

Infos

Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the
Geophysical Monograph Series, Volume 189.

Climate Dynamics: Why Does Climate Vary? presents the major
climate phenomena within the climate system to underscore the
potency of dynamics in giving rise to climate change and
variability. These phenomena include deep convection over the
Indo-Pacific warm pool and its planetary-scale organization: the
Madden-Julian Oscillation, the monsoons, the El Niño-Southern
Oscillation, the Pacific Decadal Oscillation, and the low-frequency
variability of extratropical circulations. The volume also has a
chapter focusing on the discussion of the causes of the recent
melting of Arctic sea ice and a chapter devoted to the discussion
of the causes of recent changes in the frequency and intensity of
tropical cyclones. On each topic, the basic material of climate
dynamics is covered to aid the understanding of the forefront
research, making the volume accessible to a broad spectrum of
readers.

The volume highlights include

* Diabatic and nonlinear aspects of the El Niño-Southern
Oscillation

* Causes of sea ice melting in the Arctic

* Impact of global warming on tropical cyclone activity

* Origins of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation

* Causes of climate variability of Asian monsoons

The volume will be of particular interest to graduate students
and young researchers in atmospheric and oceanic sciences and
related disciplines such as geology and geography. The book will
also be a good read for those who have a more general interest in
the Earth's climate and why it varies.

Autor

De-Zheng Sun and Frank Bryan are the authors of Climate Dynamics: Why Does Climate Vary?, published by Wiley.

Inhalt

Preface

De-Zheng Sun and Frank Bryan vii

Introduction

De-Zheng Sun and Frank Bryan 1

The Multiscale Organization of Moist Convection and the
Intersection of Weather and Climate

Mitchell W. Moncrieff 3

Monsoon Climate Variabilities

Tim Li 27

A Brief Introduction to El Niño and La Niña

Cécile Penland, De-Zheng Sun, Antonietta Capotondi, and
Daniel J. Vimont 53

A Linear Stochastic Model of Tropical Sea Surface Temperatures
Related to El Niño

Cécile Penland 65

The Diabatic and Nonlinear Aspects of the El
Niño-Southern Oscillation: Implications for Its Past and
Future Behavior

De-Zheng Sun 79

El Niño-Southern Oscillation Ocean Dynamics: Simulation by
Coupled General Circulation Models

Antonietta Capotondi 105

Extratropical Air-Sea Interaction, Sea Surface Temperature
Variability, and the Pacific Decadal Oscillation

Michael Alexander 123

Northern Hemisphere Extratropical Tropospheric Planetary Waves
and Their Low-Frequency Variability: Their Vertical Structure and
Interaction With Transient Eddies and Surface Thermal
Contrasts

Hisashi Nakamura, Takafumi Miyasaka, Yu Kosaka, Koutarou Takaya,
and Meiji Honda 149

Artic Sea Ice and the Potential for Abrupt Loss

Marika M. Holland 181

Global Warming and Tropical Cyclone Activity in the Western
North Pacific From an Observational Perspective

Johnny C. L. Chan 193

AGU Category Index 207

Index 209

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 21.6.2013
• Reihe/Serie: Geophysical Monograph Series
• Reihe/Serie: Geophysical Monograph Series
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geologie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Meteorologie / Klimatologie
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Bauwesen
• Schlagworte: Climatology & Palaeoclimatology • earth sciences • Environmental change • Environmental Geoscience • Environmental Studies • Geowissenschaften • Klimatologie u. Paläoklimatologie • Klimatologie u. Paläoklimatologie • Umweltforschung • Umweltgeowissenschaften • Umweltveränderungen • Umweltveränderungen
• ISBN-10: 1-118-67243-7 / 1118672437
• ISBN-13: 978-1-118-67243-3 / 9781118672433