Overview

Satellite observations and computing technology have advanced our understanding of the monsoon climate enormously in the last two decades. The author provides an update of the knowledge gained over this period, presenting the modern morphology and the physical principles of monsoon climate variation on all time scales ranging from intraseasonal to tectonic time scales. He brings new ideas that can be expected to markedly improve the prediction of monsoon climate, and includes contributions by experts who expand our understanding of the monsoon environment by their study of paleoclimate records, who present evidence of human influences on monsoon climate, and who describe the links of the monsoon to the economy and to human health.This is a comprehensive interdisciplinary text book summarizing new knowledge of Asian monsoon climate variability, dynamics, modeling, and prediction from intraseasonal to geological time scales, and human influence and its links to environmetal/economic issues.

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Author:   Bin Wang
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
Edition:   2006 ed.
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 5.30cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   1.858kg
ISBN:  

9783540406105

ISBN 10:   3540406107
Pages:   845
Publication Date:   07 December 2005
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

One.- The coupled monsoon system.- The Asian monsoon: Global perspectives.- The Asian winter monsoon.- Two.- Synoptic systems and weather.- Intraseasonal variability.- Interannual variability of the Asian monsoon.- The Asian monsoon: Interdecadal variability.- Three.- Mesoscale processes.- Large-scale atmospheric dynamics.- Variation of the Asian monsoon water vapor budget: Interaction with the global-scale modes.- Land-atmosphere interaction.- Interactions between the Asian monsoon and the El Niño/Southern Oscillation.- Effects of the Tibetan Plateau.- Four.- Seasonal climate prediction of Indian summer monsoon.- Dynamic seasonal prediction and predictability of the monsoon.- Five.- Extending the historical record by proxy.- Asian monsoons in the future.- The Asian monsoon — agriculture and economy.

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From the reviews: This book is a collection of 18 review articles about monsoons and monsoon-related topics. ! This book appeals to researchers in monsoon and monsoon-related topics. It is also useful to graduate students in tropical meteorology. ... The significant strengths of this book are its broad scope, long bibliography, and the mostly up-to-date information it provides. ! Many chapters contain useful discussion of future research directions. ! I do recommend this book to all people who study monsoons and monsoon-related topics. (Winston C. Chao, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, March, 2008)

From the reviews: ""This book is a collection of 18 review articles about monsoons and monsoon-related topics. … This book appeals to researchers in monsoon and monsoon-related topics. It is also useful to graduate students in tropical meteorology. ... The significant strengths of this book are its broad scope, long bibliography, and the mostly up-to-date information it provides. … Many chapters contain useful discussion of future research directions. … I do recommend this book to all people who study monsoons and monsoon-related topics."" (Winston C. Chao, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, March, 2008)

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