Beyond El Niño: Decadal and Interdecadal Climate VariabilityAntonio Navarra The interest and level of research into climate variability has risen dramatically in recent years, and major breakthroughs have been achieved in the understanding and modelling of seasonal to interannual climate variability and prediction. At the same time, the documentation of longer term variability and its underlying mecha nisms have progressed considerably. Within the European Commission's Environment and Climate research programs several important projects have been supported in these areas - including the "Dec adal and Interdecadal Climate variability Experiment" (DICE) which forms the basis of this book. Within the EC supported climate research, we see an increasing importance of research into climate variability, as is evidenced in the upcoming Fifth Framework Programme's Key Action on Global Change, Climate and Biodi versity. This is because of the obvious potential socio-economic benefits from sea sonal to decadal scale climate prediction and equally important for the fundamental understanding of the climate system to help improve the quality and reliability of future climate change and mankind's current interference with it. The DICE group has performed important and pioneering work, and we hope this book will receive the wide distribution and recognition it deserves. We wel come the contributions from distinguished researchers from US, Japan and Canada to the EC's DICE group towards completing the scope of the book and as an exam ple of international cooperation which is essential in such a high-level scientific endeavor. |
Contents
interdecadal variability in the Arctic and northern North Atlantic | |
Recent Decadal SST Variability in the Northwestern Pacific | |
Large Scale Modes of Ocean Surface Temperature Since | |
tropicwide rainfall on multi decadal timescales | |
The Indian Summer Monsoon and its Variability | |
variability | |
The Decadal Variability of the Pacific with the MRI Coupled | |
Dynamics of Interdecadal Variability in Coupled Ocean | |
Gyres | |
Thermohaline Circulation | |
Simulations of the Variability of the Tropical Atlantic | |
circulation model | |
NorthAtlantic Decadal Climate Variability in a Coupled | |
A Theory For Interdecadal Climate Fluctuations | |
rainy season | |
SSTForced Experiments and Climate Variability | |
Impact of Ensemble Size on the Assessment of Model Climate | |
Interannual and Decadal Variability in the Tropical Pacific | |
circulation | |
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Beyond El Niño: Decadal and Interdecadal Climate Variability Antonio Navarra No preview available - 2012 |
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