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1 online resource (471 pages) |
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Geophysical Monograph Series ; 189 |
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Geophysical monograph ; 189.
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Introduction; The Multiscale Organization of Moist Convection and the Intersection of Weather and Climate; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. GLOBAL CONVECTIVE ORGANIZATION; 3. CONTROLS ON MOIST CONVECTION; 4. FUNDAMENTALS OF MESOSCALE CONVECTIVE ORGANIZATION; 5. MULTISCALE ORGANIZATION OF TROPICAL CONVECTION; 6. MULTISCALE CONVECTIVE ORGANIZATION IN NUMERICAL MODELS; 7. PARAMETERIZATION OF MCS; 8. DISCUSSION; 9. CONCLUSIONS; Monsoon Climate Variabilities; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. STRUCTURES AND MECHANISMS OF THE NORTHWARD PROPAGATION OF BSISO |
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3. PROCESSES DETERMINING THE QB AND LF VARIABILITY OF THE INDIAN MONSOON4. PACIFIC-EAST ASIA TELECONNECTION; 5. TROPOSPHERIC BIENNIAL OSCILLATIONS IN THE INDO-PACIFIC WARM POOL; 6. CONCLUDING REMARKS; A Brief Introduction to El Niño and La Niña; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. ANNUAL CYCLE; 3. EL NIñO AND LA NIñA; 4. ENSO IN THE PAST CLIMATES; A Linear Stochastic Model of Tropical Sea Surface Temperatures Related to El Niño; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. SOME STOCHASTIC THEORY; 3. APPLICATION TO TROPICAL SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; 4. FORECASTS OF TROPICAL SST; 5. SUMMARY AND DISCUSSION |
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The Diabatic and Nonlinear Aspects of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation: Implications for Its Past and Future Behavior1. INTRODUCTION; 2. THEORETICAL ADVANCES; 3. RECENT ELEVATION OF ENSO ACTIVITY; 4. ENSO IN THE PAST CLIMATES; 5. POSSIBLE PROBLEMS WITH IPCC MODELS; 6. FINAL REMARKS; El Niño-Southern Oscillation Ocean Dynamics: Simulation by Coupled General Circulation Models; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL STRUCTURE OF ENSO IN SOME OF THE IPCC-AR4 MODELS; 3. WHAT IS THE UNDERLYING ENSO DYNAMICS IN THE MODELS?; 4. WHAT DETERMINES THE ENSO PERIOD IN THE CLIMATE MODELS?; 5. CONCLUSIONS |
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Extratropical Air-Sea Interaction, Sea Surface Temperature Variability, and the Pacific Decadal Oscillation1. INTRODUCTION; 2. MEAN UPPER OCEAN CLIMATE; 3. SST TENDENCY SURFACE HEAT BUDGET; 4. PROCESSES THAT GENERATE MIDLATITUDE SSTA (PACIFIC FOCUS); 5. PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; 6. BEYOND THE PDO; Northern Hemisphere Extratropical Tropospheric Planetary Waves and Their Low-Frequency Variability: Their Vertical Structure and Interaction With Transient Eddies and Surface Thermal Contrasts; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. MEAN STRUCTURE OF THE NORTHERN HEMISPHERE PLANETARY WAVES |
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3. LOW-FREQUENCY VARIABILITY IN THE NORTHERN HEMISPHERE EXTRATROPICAL CIRCULATION4. SUMMARY AND DISCUSSION; Arctic Sea Ice and the Potential for Abrupt Loss; 1. DESCRIPTION OF ARCTIC SEA ICE; 2. ROLE OF SEA ICE IN THE CLIMATE SYSTEM; 3. OBSERVED SEA ICE TRENDS; 4. SIMULATED SEA ICE CONDITIONS; 5. POTENTIAL FOR ABRUPT SEA ICE CHANGE; 6. CONCLUSIONS; Global Warming and Tropical Cyclone Activity in the Western North Pacific From an Observational Perspective; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. FACTORS RELATED TO TC ACTIVITY; 3. VARIATIONS IN TC ACTIVITY; 4. VARIATIONS IN TRACKS AND LANDFALL LOCATIONS |
| Summary |
Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geophysical Monograph Series. Climate Dynamics: Why Does Climate Vary? presents the major climate phenomena within the climate system to underscore the potency of dynamics in giving rise to climate change and variability. These phenomena include deep convection over the Indo-Pacific warm pool and its planetary-scale organization: the Madden-Julian Oscillation, the monsoons, the El Niño-Southern Oscillation, the Pacific Decadal Oscillation, and the low-frequency variability of extratropical circulations. The volume a |
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Print version record |
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Climatic changes
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Convection (Meteorology)
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Dynamic meteorology.
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Ocean-atmosphere interaction.
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Climate Change
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climate change.
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Climatic changes
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Convection (Meteorology)
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Dynamic meteorology
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Ocean-atmosphere interaction
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Bryan, Frank M
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| ISBN |
9781118671696 |
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1118671694 |
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