El Niño La Niña And The Southern Oscillation

Author : S. George Philander
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1989-12-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 0080570984

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El Nino, La Nina, and the Southern Oscillation by S. George Philander Pdf

El Nino and the Southern Oscillation is by far the most striking phenomenon caused by the interplay of ocean and atmosphere. It can be explained neither in strictly oceanographic nor strictly meteorological terms. This volume provides a brief history of the subject, summarizes the oceanographic and meteorological observations and theories, and discusses the recent advances in computer modeling studies of the phenomenon. Includes a comprehensive and up-to-date research survey Discusses in detail sophisticated computer models Provides a clear exposition of the major problems which prevent more accurate predictions of El Nino

Author : Michael J. McPhaden,Agus Santoso,Wenju Cai
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781119548126

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El Niño Southern Oscillation in a Changing Climate by Michael J. McPhaden,Agus Santoso,Wenju Cai Pdf

Comprehensive and up-to-date information on Earth’s most dominant year-to-year climate variation The El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) in the Pacific Ocean has major worldwide social and economic consequences through its global scale effects on atmospheric and oceanic circulation, marine and terrestrial ecosystems, and other natural systems. Ongoing climate change is projected to significantly alter ENSO's dynamics and impacts. El Niño Southern Oscillation in a Changing Climate presents the latest theories, models, and observations, and explores the challenges of forecasting ENSO as the climate continues to change. Volume highlights include: Historical background on ENSO and its societal consequences Review of key El Niño (ENSO warm phase) and La Niña (ENSO cold phase) characteristics Mathematical description of the underlying physical processes that generate ENSO variations Conceptual framework for understanding ENSO changes on decadal and longer time scales, including the response to greenhouse gas forcing ENSO impacts on extreme ocean, weather, and climate events, including tropical cyclones, and how ENSO affects fisheries and the global carbon cycle Advances in modeling, paleo-reconstructions, and operational climate forecasting Future projections of ENSO and its impacts Factors influencing ENSO events, such as inter-basin climate interactions and volcanic eruptions The American Geophysical Union promotes discovery in Earth and space science for the benefit of humanity. Its publications disseminate scientific knowledge and provide resources for researchers, students, and professionals. Find out more about this book from this Q&A with the editors.

Author : S. George H. Philander
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : El Niño Current
ISBN : 0125532350

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El Niño, La Niña, and the Southern Oscillation by S. George H. Philander Pdf

Author : Michael H. Glantz
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : UOM:39015055587383

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La Niña and Its Impacts by Michael H. Glantz Pdf

This volume is based on a meeting of researchers, forecasters, and users of La Nina forecasts, at the US National Centre for Atmospheric Research. La Nina results from air-sea interaction that reduces the surface seatemperatures in the central and eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean, affecting global weather patterns. While people around the globe have become familiar with El Nino - a large-scale warming of surface water that expands to cover the tropics - and its impacts, its counterpart, La Nina, is not so well known. Researchers at this La Nina Summit indicated that La Nina events can be as devastating as those of El Nino. The overriding purpose of the summit was to draw attention to the importance of improving understanding of the La Nina phenomenon and what societies need to know in order to prepare for La Nina's impacts.

Author : A. M. Babkina
Publisher : Nova Publishers
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1590334124

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El Niño by A. M. Babkina Pdf

The term El Niño (Spanish for "the Christ Child") was originally used by fishermen along the coasts of Ecuador and Peru to refer to a warm ocean current that typically appears around Christmastime and lasts for several months. Fish are less abundant during these warm intervals, yet in some years, however, the water is especially warm and the break in the fishing season persists into May or even June. El Niño also brings heavy rains. During the past 40 years, nine El Niños have affected the South American coast. Most of them raised water temperatures not only along the coast, but also at the Galapagos islands and in a belt stretching 5000 miles across the equatorial Pacific. The weaker events raised sea temperatures only by one to two degrees Fahrenheit, but the strong ones, like the El Niño of 1982-83, left an imprint, not only upon the local weather and marine life, but also on climatic conditions around the globe. This book includes a detailed overview and bibliography with complete title, author and subject indexes.

Author : David Hopley
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 1226 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789048126385

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Encyclopedia of Modern Coral Reefs by David Hopley Pdf

Coral reefs are the largest landforms built by plants and animals. Their study therefore incorporates a wide range of disciplines. This encyclopedia approaches coral reefs from an earth science perspective, concentrating especially on modern reefs. Currently coral reefs are under high stress, most prominently from climate change with changes to water temperature, sea level and ocean acidification particularly damaging. Modern reefs have evolved through the massive environmental changes of the Quaternary with long periods of exposure during glacially lowered sea level periods and short periods of interglacial growth. The entries in this encyclopedia condense the large amount of work carried out since Charles Darwin first attempted to understand reef evolution. Leading authorities from many countries have contributed to the entries covering areas of geology, geography and ecology, providing comprehensive access to the most up-to-date research on the structure, form and processes operating on Quaternary coral reefs.

Author : César Caviedes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Nature
ISBN : UOM:39015053131887

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El Niño in History by César Caviedes Pdf

Cesar Caviedes provides a comprehensive historical account of El Nino, the fascinating and disruptive weather phenomenon that has affected weather cycles all over the globe for thousands of years. Combining scientific accuracy with readable presentation, he brings together all existing information, references and clues about past El Nino occurrences and their impact on political, military, social, economic and environmental history. This sweeping demonstration of the impact of climatic fluctuation on human history should be fascinating to the scientific community as well as to the general public.

Author : S.-Y. Simon Wang,Jin-Ho Yoon,Christopher C. Funk,Robert R. Gillies
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781119068037

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Climate Extremes by S.-Y. Simon Wang,Jin-Ho Yoon,Christopher C. Funk,Robert R. Gillies Pdf

Although we are seeing more weather and climate extremes, individual extreme events are very diverse and generalization of trends is difficult. For example, mid-latitude and subtropical climate extremes such as heat waves, hurricanes and droughts have increased, and could have been caused by processes including arctic amplification, jet stream meandering, and tropical expansion. This volume documents various climate extreme events and associated changes that have been analyzed through diagnostics, modeling, and statistical approaches. The identification of patterns and mechanisms can aid the prediction of future extreme events. Volume highlights include: Compilation of processes and mechanisms unique to individual weather and climate extreme events Discussion of climate model performance in terms of simulating high-impact weather and climate extremes Summary of various existing theories, including controversial ones, on how climate extremes will continue to become stronger and more frequent Climate Extremes: Patterns and Mechanisms is a valuable resource for scientists and graduate students in the fields of geophysics, climate physics, natural hazards, and environmental science. Read an interview with the editors to find out more: https://eos.org/editors-vox/how-does-changing-climate-bring-more-extreme-events

Author : Bruno Voituriez,Guy Jacques
Publisher : UNESCO
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Climatic changes
ISBN : UCSD:31822035384106

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El Niño by Bruno Voituriez,Guy Jacques Pdf

El Nino, caprice of the heavens, scapegoat for every calamity? The general public cannot really understand what is behind the El Nino phenomenon. The book offers a tour of the Earth's climate to understand one of its normal but extreme components.

Author : Peter W. Glynn,Derek P. Manzello,Ian C. Enochs
Publisher : Springer
Page : 657 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401774994

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Coral Reefs of the Eastern Tropical Pacific by Peter W. Glynn,Derek P. Manzello,Ian C. Enochs Pdf

This book documents and examines the state of health of coral reefs in the eastern tropical Pacific region. It touches on the occurrence of coral reefs in the waters of surrounding countries, and it explores their biogeography, biodiversity and condition relative to the El Niño southern oscillation and human impacts. Additionally contained within is a field that presents information on many of the species presented in the preceding chapters.

Author : Leonardo Bacelar Lima Santos,Rogério Galante Negri,Tiago José de Carvalho
Publisher : Springer
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-14
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 3030212076

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Towards Mathematics, Computers and Environment: A Disasters Perspective by Leonardo Bacelar Lima Santos,Rogério Galante Negri,Tiago José de Carvalho Pdf

With relevant, timely topics, this book gathers carefully selected, peer-reviewed scientific works and offers a glimpse of the state-of-the-art in disaster prevention research, with an emphasis on challenges in Latin America. Topics include studies on surface frost, an extreme meteorological event that occasionally affects parts of Argentina, Bolivia, Peru, and southern Brazil, with serious impacts on local economies; near-ground pollution concentration, which affects many industrial, overpopulated cities within Latin America; disaster risk reduction and management, which are represented by mathematical models designed to assess the potential impact of failures in complex networks; and the intricate dynamics of international armed conflicts, which can be modeled with the help of stochastic theory. The book offers a valuable resource for professors, researchers, and students from both mathematical and environmental sciences, civil defense coordinators, policymakers, and stakeholders.

Author : Henry F. Diaz,Vera Markgraf
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Science
ISBN : 0521430429

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El Niño by Henry F. Diaz,Vera Markgraf Pdf

This 1993 book enhances our understanding of the mechanisms involved in the low frequency behavior of the El Nino/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) phenomenon.

Author : United Nations Environment Programme
Publisher : UN
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9211005809

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The El Niño Phenomenon by United Nations Environment Programme Pdf

An examination of the effects of, and research into, the El Nino phenomenon. Originating in the Pacific region, El Nino effects a reversal in the direction of winds and ocean currents, and changes in ocean temperature between Indonesia and the Pacific coas

Author : Edward S. Sarachik,Mark A. Cane
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010-02-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 0521847869

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The El Niño-Southern Oscillation Phenomenon by Edward S. Sarachik,Mark A. Cane Pdf

Many climatic extremes around the globe, such as severe droughts and floods, can be attributed to the periodic warming of the equatorial Pacific sea surface, termed the El Niño or Southern Oscillation (ENSO). Advances in our understanding of ENSO, in which Edward Sarachik and Mark Cane have been key participants, have led to marked improvements in our ability to predict its development months or seasons, allowing adaptation to global impacts. The book introduces basic concepts and builds to more detailed theoretical treatments. Chapters on the structure and dynamics of the tropical ocean and atmosphere place ENSO in a broader observational and theoretical context. Chapters on ENSO prediction, past and future, and impacts introduce broader implications of the phenomenon. This book provides an introduction to all aspects of this most important mode of global climate variability, for research workers and students of all levels in climate science, oceanography and related fields.

Author : Allan J. Clarke
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2008-01-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780080560830

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An Introduction to the Dynamics of El Nino and the Southern Oscillation by Allan J. Clarke Pdf

Many scientists either working on the El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) problem or its many applications have not been trained in both the equatorial ocean and atmospheric dynamics necessary to understand it. This book seeks to overcome this difficulty by providing a step by step introduction to ENSO, helping the upper level graduate student or research scientist to learn quickly the ENSO basics and be up to date with the latest ENSO research. The text assumes that the reader has a knowledge of the equations of fluid mechanics on a rotating earth and emphasizes the observations and simple physical explanations of them. Following a history of ENSO and a discussion of ENSO observations in Chapters 1 and 2, Chapters 3-5 consider relevant equatorial ocean dynamics, Chapters 6 and 9 relevant atmospheric dynamics, and Chapters 7 and 8 the main paradigms for how the Pacific Ocean and atmosphere couple together to produce ENSO. Chapter 8 also discusses the old mystery of why ENSO tends to be locked in phase with the seasonal cycle. Successful dynamical and statistical approaches to ENSO prediction are discussed in Chapters 10 and 11 while Chapter 12 concludes the book with examples of how ENSO influences marine and bird life. Quick reference guide and step by step introduction to El Niño/Southern Oscillation dynamics Keep informed and up to date on El Niño/Southern Oscillation research and how El Niño and the Southern Oscillation can be predicted Understand how El Niño can affect marine and bird life