Edward S. Sarachik

El Nino-Southern Oscillation Phenomenon (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Many climatic extremes around the globe, such as severe droughts and floods, can be attributed to the periodic warming of the equatorial Pacific sea surface, termed the El Nino or Southern Oscillation (ENSO). Advances in our understanding of ENSO, in which Edward S. Sarachik and Mark A. Cane have been key participants, have led to marked improvements in our ability to predict its development months or seasons, allowing adaptation to global impacts. This book introduces basic concepts and builds to more detailed theoretical treatments. Chapters on the structure and dynamics of the tropical ocean and atmosphere place ENSO in a broader observational and theoretical context. Chapters on ENSO prediction, past and future, and impacts, introduce broader implications of the phenomenon. This book provides an introduction to all aspects of this most important mode of global climate variability, for research workers and students of all levels in climate science, oceanography and related fields.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Februar 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511846540
• Artikelnr.: 37818508

Autorenporträt

Edward S. Sarachik is Emeritus Professor of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Washington. He has been an active contributor to research on tropical meteorology, tropical oceanography and coupled interactions in the tropics. He has also worked on other problems of oceanography, in particular the global thermohaline circulation. Professor Sarachik has served on nineteen National Research Council committees, chairing two, in particular the Tropical Ocean Global Atmosphere (TOGA) Panel. He worked to found the International Research Institute for Climate and Society and has chaired IRI advisory committees since its inception. Until his retirement, he co-directed the Center for Science in the Earth System at the University of Washington, a center devoted to the dynamics of climate variability and change and impacts of such variability and change on the ecology, built environment, and people of the Pacific Northwest of the United States. He is a fellow of the American Meteorological Society, the American Geophysical Union, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Preview
2. The observational basis
3. The equations of motion and some simplifications
4. Boundary layers on both sides of the tropical ocean surface
5. Atmospheric processes
6. Ocean processes
7. ENSO mechanisms
8. ENSO prediction and short term climate prediction
9. ENSO, past and future, or ENSO by proxy and ENSO in the tea leaves
10. Using ENSO information
11. Postview
Appendix 1. Some useful numbers
Appendix 2. The parabolic cylinder functions
Appendix 3. Modal and non-modal growth
References
Index.