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A comprehensive review of the interactions between climates of different ocean basins and how they contribute to global climate variability.
List of contents
1. Variability of the oceans Jin-Yi Yu, Edmo Campos, Teresa Losada Doval, Yan Du, Tor Eldevik, Sarah Gille, Michael J. McPhaden and Lars Henrik Smedsrud; 2. Teleconnections in the atmosphere Soon-Il An, Chunzai Wang and Carlos R. Mechoso; 3. Atmosphere-ocean interactions Ping Chang, Ingo Richter, Hank Dijkstra, Claudia Wieners and Timothy A. Myers; 4. Interannual variability of the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans Belén Rodríguez-Fonseca, Yoo-Ge Ham, Sang-Ki Lee, Marta Martín-Rey, Irene Polo Sánchez and Regina Rodrigues; 5. Indian Ocean variability and interactions Fred Kucharski, Arne Biastoch, Karumuri Ashok and Dongliang Yuang; 6. The Arctic Mediterranean Tor Eldevik, Lars H. Smedsrud, Camille Li, Marius Årthun, Erica Madonna and Lea Svendsen; 7. Combined oceanic influences on the continental climates Akio Kitoh, Elsa Mohino, Yihui Ding, Kavirajan Rajendran, Tercio Ambrizzi, Jose Marengo and Victor Magaña; 8. Basin interactions and predictability Noel Keenlyside, Yu Kosaka, Nicolas Vigaud, Andrew Robertson, Yiguo Wang, Dietmar Dommenget, Jing-Jia Luo and Daniela Matei; 9. Climate change and impacts on variability and interactions Anny Cazenave, Gerald Meehl, Marisa Montoya, J. Robbie Toggweiler and Claudia Wieners.
About the author
Carlos R. Mechoso is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the Department of Atmospheric and Ocean Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, and is currently Profesor Honorífico at the University Complutense, Madrid. He is author of more than 200 scientific publications, including pioneering contributions on numerical modeling of the coupled atmosphere-ocean system. Much of his research has focused on the El Niño/Southern Oscillation and its impacts. He has chaired international research programs on different aspects of the climate of the Americas, and is a fellow of the American and Royal Meteorological Societies. For this book, he assembled an international team of researchers working on a major topic of current scientific and societal interest.
Summary
A comprehensive review of interactions between the climates of different ocean basins and their key contributions to global climate variability and change. Providing essential theory and discussing outstanding examples as well as impacts on monsoons, it a useful resource for graduate students and researchers in the atmospheric and ocean sciences.
