Climate Dynamics
Why Does Climate Vary?
Herausgeber: Sun, De-Zheng; Bryan, Frank
Climate Dynamics
Why Does Climate Vary?
Herausgeber: Sun, De-Zheng; Bryan, Frank
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Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geophysical Monograph Series, Volume 189
Preface
De-Zheng Sun and Frank Bryan vii
Introduction
De-Zheng Sun and Frank Bryan 1
The Multiscale Organization of Moist Convection and theIntersection 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, andDaniel J. Vimont 53
A Linear Stochastic Model of Tropical Sea Surface TemperaturesRelated to El Niño
Cécile Penland 65
The Diabatic and Nonlinear Aspects of the ElNiño-Southern Oscillation: Implications for Its Past andFuture Behavior
De-Zheng Sun 79
El Niño-Southern Oscillation Ocean Dynamics: Simulation byCoupled General Circulation Models
Antonietta Capotondi 105
Extratropical Air-Sea Interaction, Sea Surface TemperatureVariability, and the Pacific Decadal Oscillation
Michael Alexander 123
Northern Hemisphere Extratropical Tropospheric Planetary Wavesand Their Low-Frequency Variability: Their Vertical Structure andInteraction With Transient Eddies and Surface ThermalContrasts
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 WesternNorth Pacific From an Observational Perspective
Johnny C. L. Chan 193
AGU Category Index 207
Index 209
