Teleconnections Linking Worldwide Climate Anomalies: Scientific Basis and Societal Impact
Cambridge University Press, 6/1/2009
EAN 9780521106849, ISBN10: 0521106842
Paperback, 548 pages, 24.4 x 17 x 3.1 cm
Language: English
Originally published in English
Teleconnections is a central concept in the scientific search for an improved understanding of potential linkages between weather and climate anomalies that occur over relatively large distances. The editors of this 1991 volume brought together contributions from experts in the field, which together provide a comprehensive review of this important subject. This book will be of importance to all professional scientists and researchers in climatology and meteorology, particularly those concerned with air-sea interactions and their environmental impacts and the physical basis for and societal responses to forecasting. Graduate students in environmental science, meteorology and climate-related impact assessments will also find the book useful.
Part I. Introduction
1. Introduction Michael H. Glantz
2. General characteristics of El Nino-southern oscillation Kevin E. Trenberth
Part II. Regional case studies of teleconnections
physical aspects
3. Brazil's climate anomalies and ENSO Pao-Shin Chu
4. Australasia R. J. Allan
5. West Africa Peter J. Lamb and Randy A. Peppler
6. The Asian snow cover-monsoon-ENSO connection T. P. Barnett, L. Dumenil, U. Schlese, E. Roeckner and M. Latif
7. Teleconnections in global rainfall anomalies
seasonal to inter-decadal time scales K. M. Lau and P. J. Sheu
Part III. Scientific Basis for Teleconnections
8. El Nino and QBO influences on tropical cyclone activity William M. Gray and John D. Sheaffer
9. The rudimentary theory of atmospheric teleconnections associated with ENSO Joseph J. Tribbia
10. Observational aspects of ENSO cycle teleconnections Eugene M. Rasmusson
11. Forecasting El Nino with a geophysical model Mark A. Cane
12. Use of statistical methods in the search for teleconnections
past, present and future Barbara G. Brown and Richard W. Katz
Part IV. Regional Impacts of Climate Anomalies
Environmental and Societal Impacts
13. Impact of ENSO events on the southeastern Pacific region with special reference to the interaction of fishing and climate variability Romulo Jordan S
14. ENSO, monsson and drought in India George Kiladia and Suresh K. Sinha
15. The shrimp fishery in the Gulf of Mexico
relation to climatic variability and global atmospheric patterns Marie E. White and Mary W. Downton
16. Teleconnections and health Neville Nicholls
Part V. Implications for ENSO forecasts
17. Teleconnections and their implications for long-range forecasts Neville Nicholls and Richard W. Katz
Index.