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Informationen zum Autor De-Zheng Sun and Frank Bryan are the authors of Climate Dynamics: Why Does Climate Vary?, published by Wiley. Klappentext Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geophysical Monograph Series, Volume 189 Zusammenfassung Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geophysical Monograph Series, Volume 189. 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface De-Zheng Sun and Frank Bryan vii Introduction De-Zheng Sun and Frank Bryan 1 The Multiscale Organization of Moist Convection and the Intersection 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, and Daniel J. Vimont 53 A Linear Stochastic Model of Tropical Sea Surface Temperatures Related to El Niño Cécile Penland 65 The Diabatic and Nonlinear Aspects of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation: Implications for Its Past and Future Behavior De-Zheng Sun 79 El Niño-Southern Oscillation Ocean Dynamics: Simulation by Coupled General Circulation Models Antonietta Capotondi 105 Extratropical Air-Sea Interaction, Sea Surface Temperature Variability, and the Pacific Decadal Oscillation Michael Alexander 123 Northern Hemisphere Extratropical Tropospheric Planetary Waves and Their Low-Frequency Variability: Their Vertical Structure and Interaction With Transient Eddies and Surface Thermal Contrasts 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 Western North Pacific From an Observational Perspective Johnny C. L. Chan 193 AGU Category Index 207 Index 209 ...
