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OverviewThis book summarizes advances in understanding of ENSO, in particular its diabatic aspects. The research over the last 5-10 years has revealed a fundamental rule of diabatic heating in giving rise to the ENso phenomenon. It is critical to understand the effects of diabatic heating on ENSO and the feedbacks from ENSO onto the time-mean climate - its background state - in order to explain the variability of ENSO in the past and predict its response to Global Warming. This book consolidates and highlights this understanding. Full Product DetailsAuthor: De-Zheng SunPublisher: Springer International Publishing AG Imprint: Springer International Publishing AG Volume: 50 ISBN: 9783319001128ISBN 10: 3319001124 Pages: 300 Publication Date: 03 March 2015 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsIntroduction.- Why is the eastern equitorial Pacific colder than the western equitorial Pacific?.- Why does the equitorial zone SST contrast fail to maintain steady?.- What controls the level of ENSO activity.- Why has ENSO varied over the past.- How ENSO responds to Global Warming.- ENSO's role in regulating the Earth's surface temperature.ReviewsAuthor InformationDr. De-Zheng Sun is a Senior Research Scientist at the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences ( CIRES), University of Colorado, a cooperative institute between the University and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ( NOAA). His specialty is climate dynamics, a discipline in climate sciences that studies the changes in the state of the climate system from the first principles--the Newton's laws of motion and the laws of thermodynamics. The goal of research is to understand the stability of the climate system under anthropogenic forcing, addressing questions such as whether we will have stronger and more frequent El Nino events, or whether the whole planet may undergo a Venus-style, run-away instability in response to anthropogenic forcing. Dr. Sun pioneered the study of the role of ENSO events in the long-term heat balance of the tropical Pacific, delineated the relationship between the amplitude of ENSO and the meridional differential heating, discovered the rectification effect of ENSO into the mean climate as a mechanism for climate changes on decadal and longer time-scales, and advanced the understanding of the role of ocean-atmosphere coupling in general and El Nino events in particular in regulating the tropical maximum Sea Surface Temperature. He is currently studying the response of El Nino events to the rise of CO2 and other man-made greeenghouse gases in the atmosphere. Dr. Sun received his Ph.D. in Meteorology from MIT and had worked in the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory of Princeton University and the Global and Climate Dynamics Division of National Center for Atmospheric Research before joining CIRES. He has taught both undergraduate and graduate classes in climate change sciences in University of Colorado at Boulder. In collaborations with colleagues, he has produced a monograph Climate Dynamics: Why Does Climate Vary? published by American Geophysical Union (AGU). Dr.Sun also concerns the public education about climate change and has talked to the media frequently on this subject. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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