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Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geophysical Monograph Series, Volume 147. It is more than 30 years since the publication of Jacob Bjerknes' groundbreaking ideas made clear the importance of ocean-atmosphere interaction in the tropics. It is now more than 20 years since the arrival of a massive El Nino in the fall of 1982 set off a cascade of observational and theoretical studies. During the following decades, the climate research community has made exceptional progress in refining our capacity to observe earth's climate and theorize about it, including new satellite-based and in situ monitoring systems and coupled ocean-atmosphere predictive numerical models. Of equal importance. is the expanding scope ofresearch, which now reaches far beyond the Pacific El Nino and includes climate phenomena in other ocean basins. In order to cover the now global context of ocean-atmosphere interaction we have organized this monograph around five principal themes, each introduced by one or more broad overview papers. Theme I covers interaction and climate variability in the Pacific sector, with extensive discussion of El Nino-Southern Oscillation, and with the possible causes and consequences of variability on both shorter and longer timescales. Theme II is devoted to interaction in the Atlantic sector. This basin exhibits complex behavior, reflecting its geographic location between two major zones of convection as well as neighboring the tropical Pacific. Theme III reviews the recent, exciting progress in our understanding of climate variability in the Indian sector. Theme IV addresses the interaction between the tropics and the extratropics, which are linked through the presence of shallow meridional overturning cells in the ocean. Finally, Theme V discusses overarching issues of cross-basin interaction.

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Author:   Chunzai Wang ,  Shang-Ping Xie ,  James A. Carton
Publisher:   American Geophysical Union
Imprint:   American Geophysical Union
Volume:   147
Dimensions:   Width: 22.40cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 27.40cm
Weight:   0.001kg
ISBN:  

9780875904122

ISBN 10:   0875904122
Pages:   414
Publication Date:   09 January 2004
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Stock Indefinitely
Availability:   Awaiting stock  

Table of Contents

Preface Chunzai Wang, Shang-Ping Xie, and James A. Carton vii A Global Survey of Ocean-Atmosphere Interaction and Climate Variability Chunzai Wang, Shang-Ping Xie, and James A. Carton 1 Theme I: Pacific Climate Variability Understanding ENSO Physics?A Review Chunzai Wang and Joel Picaut 21 Westerly Wind Events in the Tropical Pacific and Their Influence on the Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere System: A Review Matthieu Lengaigne, Jean-Philippe Boulanger, Christophe Menkes, Pascale Delecluse, and Julia Slingo 49 The Control of Meridional Differential Surface Heating Over the Level of ENSO Activity: A Heat-Pump Hypothesis De-Zheng Sun 71 Broadening the Atmospheric Bridge Paradigm: ENSOTeleconnections to the Tropical West Pacific- Indian Oceans Over the Seasonal Cycle and to the North Pacific in Summer Michael A. Alexander, Ngar-Cheung Lau, and James D. Scott 85 Predicting Pacific Decadal Variability Richard Seager, Alicia R. Karspeck, Mark A. Cane, Yochanan Kushnir, Alessandra Giannini, Alexey Kaplan, Ben Kerman, and Jennifer Velez 105 Theme II: Tropical Atlantic Climate Variability Tropical Atlantic Variability: Patterns, Mechanisms, and Impacts Shang-Ping Xie and James A. Carton 121 On the Role of the South Atlantic Atmospheric Circulation in Tropical Atlantic Variability Marcelo Barreiro, Alessandra Giannini, Ping Chang, and R. Saravanan 143 Toward Understanding Tropical Atlantic Variability Using Coupled Modeling Surgery Lixin Wu, QiongZhang, and Zhengyu Liu 157 Thermodynamic Coupling and Predictability of Tropical Sea Surface Temperature R. Saravanan and Ping Chang 171 Internal Variability of the Tropical Atlantic Ocean Markus Jochum, Raghu Murtugudde, Paola Malanotte-Rizzoli, and Antonio J. Busalacchi 181 Theme III: Indian Ocean Climate Variability Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Variability in the Tropical Indian Ocean Toshio Yamagata, Swadhin K. Behera, Jing-Jia Luo, Sebastien Masson, Mark R. Jury, and Suryachandra A. Rao 189 Role of the Indian Ocean in Regional Climate Variability H. Annamalai and Raghu Murtugudde 213 Interannual Indian Rainfall Variability and Indian Ocean Sea Surface Temperature Anomalies Gabriel A. Vecchi and D. E. Harrison 247 Theme IV: Tropical-Extratropical Interaction Shallow Overturning Circulations of the Tropical-Subtropical Oceans Friedrich A. Schott, Julian P. McCreary, Jr., and Gregory C. Johnson 261 Seasonal Variation of the Subtropical/Tropical Pathways in the Atlantic Ocean From an Ocean Data Assimilation Experiment Meyre P. Da Silva and Ping Chang 305 Gyre-Connected Variations Inferred From the Circulation Indices in the Northern Pacific Ocean Dongxiao Wang, Yun Liu, and Dejun Gu 319 Theme V: Cross-Basin Issues Observed Associations Among Storm Tracks, Jet Streams and Midlatitude Oceanic Fronts Hisashi Nakamura, Takeaki Sampe, Youichi Tanimoto, and Akihiko Shimpo 329 The Relationship of Western Boundary Current Heat Transport and Storage to Midlatitude Ocean-Atmosphere Interaction Kathryn A. Kelly and Shenfu Dong 347 Two Different Regimes of Anomalous Walker Circulation Over the Indian and Pacific Oceans Before and After the Late 1970s Ryuichi Kawamura, Hiromitsu Aruga, Tomonori Matsuura, and Satoshi lizuka 365 Tropical Tropospheric Temperature and Precipitation Response to Sea Surface Temperature Forcing Hui Su, J. David Neelin, and Joyce E. Meyerson 379 Convection, Cloud-Radiative Feedbacks and Thermodynamic Ocean Coupling in Simple Models of the Walker Circulation Adam H. Sobel, Christopher S. Bretherton, Hezi Gildor, and Matthew E. Peters 393

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