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The Hadley Circulation: Present, Past and Future

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Editors:
  1. Henry F. Diaz

    1. Climate Diagnostics Center, Oceanic and Atmospheric Research, NOAA, Boulder, USA

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  2. Raymond S. Bradley

    1. Climate System Research Center, Department of Geosciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA

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  • First time topical synthesis with an historcial overview and future scenarios

Part of the book series: Advances in Global Change Research (AGLO, volume 21)

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. The Hadley Circulation: Present, Past, And Future

    1. The Hadley Circulation: Present, Past, and Future

      • Henry F. Diaz, Raymond S. Bradley
      Pages 1-5

    2. The Elementary Hadley Circulation

      • Peter J. Webster
      Pages 9-60

    3. Hadley Circulation Dynamics

      • Kerry H. Cook
      Pages 61-83

    4. Change in the Tropical Hadley Cell Since 1950

      • Xiao-Wei Quan, Henry F. Diaz, Martin P. Hoerling
      Pages 85-120

    5. The Shape of Continents, Air-Sea Interaction, and the Rising Branch of the Hadley Circulation

      • Shang-Ping Xie
      Pages 121-152

    6. Year-To-Year Variability in the Hadley and Walker Circulations from NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis Data

      • Shoshiro Minobe
      Pages 153-171

    7. ENSO, Atlantic Climate Variability, and the Walker and Hadley Circulations

      • Chunzai Wang
      Pages 173-202

  3. The Role of the Hadley Cell in Atmospheric Circulation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-7
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    2. The Hadley and Walker Regional Circulations and Associated ENSO Impacts on South American Seasonal Rainfall

      • Tércio Ambrizzi, Everaldo B. de Souza, Roger S. Pulwarty
      Pages 203-235

    3. The Pacific Sector Hadley and Walker Circulation in Historical Marine Wind Analyses

      • Michael N. Evans, Alexey Kaplan
      Pages 239-258

    4. Holocene Records of Rainfall Variation and Associated ITCZ Migration from Stalagmites from Northern and Southern Oman

      • Dominik Fleitmann, Stephen J. Burns, Ulrich Neff, Manfred Mudelsee, Augusto Mangini, Jan Kramers et al.
      Pages 259-287

    5. Evolution of the Indo-Pacific Warm Pool and Hadley-Walker Circulation Since the Last Deglaciation

      • Michael K. Gagan, Lonnie G. Thompson
      Pages 289-312

    6. Late Quaternary Hydrologic Changes in the Arid and Semiarid Belt of Northern Africa

      • Françoise Gasse, C. Neil Roberts
      Pages 313-345

    7. Variability of the Marine ITCZ over the Eastern Pacific during the Past 30,000 Years

      • Athanasios Koutavas, Jean Lynch-Stieglitz
      Pages 347-369

  4. Variability of the Hadley Circulation in the Past

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 237-237
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    2. Mount Logan Ice Core Evidence for Changes in the Hadley and Walker Circulations Following the end of the Little Ice Age

      • G. W. K. Moore, Keith Alverson, Gerald Holdsworth
      Pages 371-395

    3. The Response of the Hadley Circulation to Climate Changes, Past and Future

      • David Rind, Judith Perlwitz
      Pages 399-435

    4. The Sensitivity of the Hadley Circulation to Past and Future Forcings in Two Climate Models

      • Bette L. Otto-Bliesner, Amy Clement
      Pages 437-464

    5. Present-Day Climate Variability in the Tropical Atlantic

      • John C. H. Chiang
      Pages 465-488
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About this book

Climate dynamicists generally characterize the Hadley circulation in terms of some derived meteorological parameters, such as the mass stream function (the nondivergent part of the flow) or the velocity potential (the divergent circulation), both of which are based on measurements of the three-dimensional wind field. Yet, we know very little about how such in- ces have varied in the past—beyond the most recent decades. Paleocli- tologists are unable to reconstruct such indices, so long-term reconstructions of the Hadley circulation must be based on indirect characteristics that can be in some way plausibly linked to the dynamics of the system. Rec- structed quantities, such as precipitation amount, position and strength of the trade winds, and the location of the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ), have all been derived from different types of paleoclimatic (proxy) data, and could be potentially useful in understanding key aspects of past variability in the Hadley system. While these studies all provide an important perspective on changes that have taken place within the Hadley circulation, there has been little - fort to tie individual studies together, to obtain a more comprehensive p- spective on the overall variability of the system. With this in mind, a thr- day meeting was held at the International Pacific Research Center, Ho- lulu, Hawaii, in November 2002. This was the first time that climatologists, paleoclimatologists, and modelers had met with the specific goal of exam- ing this important part of the climate system.

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"This book aims to address the nature and causes of variation in the Hadley circulation … . The great strength of this book lies in the combination of its three parts. It succeeds in combining 17 contributions from authoritative climatologists, palaeoclimatologists and modellers into a coherent volume. … Overall, this is a superb book, which should be on all university bookshelves. It will be of value to researchers and students over a broad range of climate-related disciplines." (Gerard van der Schrier, The Holocene, Vol. 16 (4), 2006)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Climate Diagnostics Center, Oceanic and Atmospheric Research, NOAA, Boulder, USA

    Henry F. Diaz

  • Climate System Research Center, Department of Geosciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA

    Raymond S. Bradley

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