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Atmospheric Oscillations: Sources of Subseasonal-to-Seasonal Variability and Predictability provides a thorough examination of various atmospheric oscillations of scientific and societal importance in the context of natural climate variability and anthropogenic climate change. Included are introductions to each phenomenon, overviews of the state of knowledge, in-depth analyses of relevant dynamical processes, and discussions of the impacts on weather and climate and implications for subseasonal-to-seasonal predictions and predictability.
Written by an international team of experts in the fields of atmospheric and planetary sciences, each chapter of the book either focuses on a specific atmospheric oscillation or explores the interaction between multiple oscillations.
List of contents
Section I: Introduction1. Oscillations as a central theme in atmospheric variability: weaving together oscillations, cycles, instability, wave propagation and circulation regimes
Section II: Tropics2. Madden-Julian Oscillation
3. Boreal summer intraseasonal oscillation
4. Quasi-biweekly mode of the South Asian monsoon
5. Convectively coupled equatorial waves
Section III: Extratropics6. North Pacific Oscillation
7. Pacific-North American pattern
8. Pacific-South American pattern
9. East Atlantic and Scandinavian patterns
10. Northern Annular Mode
11. Southern Annular Mode
12. Global Wind Oscillation
Section IV: Stratosphere13. Quasi-Biennial Oscillation
14. Stratospheric polar vortex variability
Section V: Interactions15. Stratosphere-troposphere interactions: the influence of Quasi-Biennial Oscillation on Madden-Julian Oscillation
16. Tropics-extratropics interactions: the influence of Madden-Julian Oscillation on annular modes
17. Ocean-atmosphere interactions: Madden-Julian Oscillation and El Niño-Southern Oscillation
Section VI: Beyond Earth18. Equatorial stratospheric oscillations in planetary atmospheres
19. Oscillations in terrestrial planetary atmospheres
Section VII: Conclusion20. Concluding remarks and future perspectives
About the author
Dr. Bin Guan is a Researcher (Full Professor equivalent) at the Joint Institute for Regional Earth System Science and Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), with a background in atmospheric and oceanic science. His research focuses on high-impact weather and climate events and their interdisciplinary implications. He has served on the American Meteorological Society’s (AMS) Committee on Climate Variability and Change, its membership subcommittee, and the drafting committee for updating the AMS Statement on Weather Analysis and Forecasting. He received the 2018 Climate Science Service Award from the California Department of Water Resources and was named Outstanding Reviewer of 2019 by the American Geophysical Union. He has authored more than 80 peer-reviewed publications, with an h-index of 34. He earned his BS degree from Nanjing University, MPhil from the City University of Hong Kong, and PhD from the University of Maryland, College Park. He was a postdoctoral scholar at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology before joining UCLA.
