Overview
- Authors:
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William K.-M. Lau
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Climate and Radiation Branch, NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, USA
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Duane E. Waliser
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Jet Propulsion Lab., California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- The only up-to-date comprehensive reference work on intra-seasonal variability.
- Covers a broad range of topics, with a balance between observation, theory and modeling.
- An invaluable reference for those involved in long range weather forecasting, climate prediction and the management of natural disasters.
- Presents topics from a worldwide perspective, but of particular interest in the monsoon countries.
- Updated with a new chapter on the substantial new development of ISV research
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Front Matter
Pages i-xxxiii
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- William K. M. Lau, Duane E. Waliser, Roland A. Madden, Paul R. Julian
Pages 1-19
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- William K. M. Lau, Duane E. Waliser, B. N. Goswami
Pages 21-72
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- William K. M. Lau, Duane E. Waliser, Huang-Hsiung Hsu
Pages 73-110
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- William K. M. Lau, Duane E. Waliser, Kingtse C. Mo, Charles Jones, Julia Nogués Paegle
Pages 111-145
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- William K. M. Lau, Duane E. Waliser, M. C. Wheeler, J. L. McBride
Pages 147-197
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- William K. M. Lau, Duane E. Waliser, William S. Kessler
Pages 199-246
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- William K. M. Lau, Duane E. Waliser, Harry Hendon
Pages 247-270
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- William K. M. Lau, Duane E. Waliser, Benjamin F. Chao, David A. Salstein
Pages 271-296
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- William K. M. Lau, Duane E. Waliser
Pages 297-334
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- William K. M. Lau, Duane E. Waliser, Bin Wang
Pages 335-398
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- William K. M. Lau, Duane E. Waliser, K. R. Sperber, J. M. Slingo, P. M. Inness
Pages 399-431
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- William K. M. Lau, Duane E. Waliser, Duane Waliser
Pages 433-476
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- William K. M. Lau, Duane E. Waliser, Mathew Barlow
Pages 477-495
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- William K. M. Lau, Duane E. Waliser, Paul E. Roundy
Pages 497-512
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- William K. M. Lau, Duane E. Waliser, Jean Philippe Duvel
Pages 513-536
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- William K. M. Lau, Duane E. Waliser, Chidong Zhang
Pages 537-548
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- William K. M. Lau, Duane E. Waliser, Andrew J. Majda, Samuel N. Stechmann
Pages 549-568
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- William K. M. Lau, Duane E. Waliser, Baijun Tian
Pages 569-585
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Back Matter
Pages 587-613
About this book
Improving the reliability of long-range forecasts of natural disasters, such as severe weather, droughts and floods, in North America, South America, Africa and the Asian/Australasian monsoon regions is of vital importance to the livelihood of millions of people who are affected by these events. In recent years the significance of major short-term climatic variability, and events such as the El Nino/Southern Oscillation in the Pacific, with its worldwide effect on rainfall patterns, has been all to clearly demonstrated. Understanding and predicting the intra-seasonal variability (ISV) of the ocean and atmosphere is crucial to improving long range environmental forecasts and the reliability of climate change projects through climate models. In the second edition of this classic book on the subject, the authors have updated the original chapters, where appropriate, and added a new chapter that includes short subjects representing substantial new development in ISV research since the publication of the first edition.
Authors and Affiliations
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Climate and Radiation Branch, NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, USA
William K.-M. Lau
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Jet Propulsion Lab., California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
Duane E. Waliser