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Summary
Summary
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.
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Lau (NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center) and Waliser (California Institute of Technology) provide the first edited volume on intraseasonal climate variability (ISV). As the authors readily admit in the preface, the real focus of this work is tropical ISV (TISV), although some effort is made to link tropical variability to climate in other regions. Lau and Waliser provide an excellent historical overview of TISV research, from the identification of the Madden-Julian Oscillation in the late 1960s and early 1970s to current theory and the ability of present coupled climate models (and empirical models) to simulate and forecast TISV. The coverage of TISV is comprehensive and the focus on regional manifestations (e.g., monsoons as covered in chapters 2-5) will prove useful for countless researchers focused on specific ISV problems. The links between atmospheric, oceanic, and solid earth ISV provide an effective demonstration of the complexity of ISV, while providing an insightful glimpse into current levels of understanding. The book's primary strength is that each chapter (with full reference list) can be read individually, but there is also substantial cross-referencing between chapters. Figures are effectively used throughout and a useful list of abbreviations is included. ^BSumming Up: Highly recommended. Graduate students; faculty and researchers. J. Schoof Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies
Table of Contents
| Preface |
| 1 Historical perspective |
| 2 South Asian monsoon |
| 3 East Asian monsoon |
| 4 Pan-America |
| 5 Australian-Indonesian monsoon |
| 6 The Oceans |
| 7 Air-sea interaction |
| 8 Mass, momentum and geodynamics |
| 9 El Nino Southern Oscillation connection |
| 10 Theory |
| 11 Modeling |
| 12 Predictability and forecasting |
