Intraseasonal Variability in the Atmosphere-Ocean Climate System

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxviii

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2. Historical perspective

   • Roland A. Madden, Paul R. Julian

   Pages 1-18

3. South Asian monsoon

   • B. N. Goswami

   Pages 19-61

4. East Asian monsoon

   • Huang-Hsiung Hsu

   Pages 63-94

5. Pan-America

   • Kingtse C. Mo, Julia Nogues-Paegle

   Pages 95-124

6. Australian-Indonesian monsoon

   • M. C. Wheeler, J. L. McBride

   Pages 125-173

7. The oceans

   • William S. Kessler

   Pages 175-222

8. Air-sea interaction

   • Harry Hendon

   Pages 223-246

9. Mass, momentum, and geodynamics

   • Benjamin F. Chao, David A. Salstein

   Pages 247-269

10. El Niño Southern Oscillation connection

    • William K. M. Lau

    Pages 271-305

11. Theory

    • Bin Wang

    Pages 307-360

12. Modeling

    • J. M. Slingo, P. M. Inness, K. R. Sperber

    Pages 361-388

13. Predictability and forecasting

    • Duane Waliser

    Pages 389-423

14. Back Matter

    Pages 425-436

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As the first comprehensive and authoritative review of intra-seasonal variability (ISV), this multi-author work balances coverage of observation, theory and modeling and provides a single source of reference for all those interested in this important, multi-faceted natural phenomenon and its relation to major short-term climatic variations. Commencing with an overview of ISV and observations from an historical perspective, the book offers successive chapters that deal with the role of ISV in monsoon variability on the monsoon regions of South Asia, East Asia and South America, in North America, and in the oceans. The coupling between ocean and atmosphere is considered, together with the function of angular momentum and Earth rotation. Later chapters deal with modeling ISV in the atmosphere and oceans, and the connection between the Madden and Julian Oscillations, and El Nino/Southern Oscillation with short-term climate are considered.

• Climatology
• Ocean
• Southern Oscillation
• atmospheric physics
• global circulation
• global climate
• meteorology
• ecotoxicology

• NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, USA

  William K. M. Lau

• Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA

  Duane E. Waliser

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