Decadal Climate Variability

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-VII

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2. Observed Climatic Variability: Time Dependence

   • John M. Wallace

   Pages 1-30

3. Observed Climatic Variability: Spatial Structure

   • John M. Wallace

   Pages 31-81

4. Predictability of the Atmosphere and Oceans: From Days to Decades

   • T. N. Palmer

   Pages 83-155

5. Mechanisms for Decadal-to-Centennial Climate Variability

   • E. S. Sarachik, M. Winton, F. L. Yin

   Pages 157-210

6. Long-Term Coordinated Changes in the Convective Activity of the North Atlantic

   • Robert Dickson, John Lazier, Jens Meincke, Peter Rhines

   Pages 211-261

7. A Mechanism for Decadal Climate Variability

   • M. Latif, A. Grötzner, M. Münnich, E. Maier-Reimer, S. Venzke, T. P. Barnett

   Pages 263-292

8. The Climate Response to the Changing Greenhouse Gas Concentration in the Atmosphere

   • Lennart Bengtsson

   Pages 293-332

9. Analysis of Thermohaline Feedbacks

   • Jochem Marotzke

   Pages 333-378

10. An Overview of Century Time-Scale Variability in the Climate System: Observations and Models

    • Thomas F. Stocker

    Pages 379-406

11. Steady States and Variability in Oceanic Zonal Flows

    • Dirk Olbers, Christoph Völker

    Pages 407-443

12. Spectral Methods: What They Can and Cannot do for Climatic Time Series

    • Michael Ghil, Pascal Yiou

    Pages 445-482

13. Back Matter

    Pages 483-496

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On decadal time scales, climate change may result not only from man-made causes, but also from natural processes. This book brings together theoretical conceptions of the physical mechanisms of climate change with observational evidence of these changes. The following key topics are included: Observed Climatic Variability, Predictability of the Atmosphere and Oceans from Days to Decades, and Mechanisms for Decadal to Centennial Climate Variability. Further, there are specialised contributions on the role of the oceanic circulation in climate change. The authors are renowned for their pedagogical skills, and the book is primarily designed for beginners in the field, who have a background in physical science. In addition, it is an invaluable source of information for scientists seeking an overview on climate dynamics.

• Climatology
• Greenhouse gas
• Klimatologie
• Klimaveränderung
• Ocean
• Scale
• climate change

• Department of Atmospheric Physics, Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford, UK

  David L. T. Anderson

• Institut für Meereskunde, Universität Kiel, Kiel, Germany

  Jürgen Willebrand

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