Teleconnections Linking Worldwide Climate Anomalies

by Edited by Michael H. Glantz , Richard W. Katz , Neville Nicholls

• ISBN13: 9780521106849
• ISBN10: 0521106842
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-04-02
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Teleconnections is a central concept in the scientific search for an improved understanding of potential linkages between weather and climate anomalies that occur over relatively large distances. The editors of this volume have brought together contributions from experts in the field, which together provide a comprehensive review of this important subject. This book will be of importance to all professional scientists and researchers in climatology and meteorology, particularly those concerned with air-sea interactions and their environmental impacts and the physical basis for and societal responses to forecasting. Graduate students in environmental science, meteorology and climate-related impact assessments will also find the book useful.

Table of Contents

Part I

Introduction

General characteristics of El Nino-southern oscillation

Regional case studies of teleconnections: physical aspects

Brazil's climate anomalies and ENSO

Australasia

West Africa

The Asian snow cover-monsoon-ENSO connection

Teleconnections in global rainfall anomalies: seasonal to inter-decadal time scales

Scientific Basis for Teleconnections

El Nino and QBO influences on tropical cyclone activity

The rudimentary theory of atmospheric teleconnections associated with ENSO

Observational aspects of ENSO cycle teleconnections

Forecasting El Nino with a geophysical model

Use of statistical methods in the search for teleconnections: past, present and future

Regional Impacts of Climate Anomalies: Environmental and Societal Impacts

Impact of ENSO events on the southeastern Pacific region with special reference to the interaction of fishing and climate variability

ENSO, monsson and drought in India

The shrimp fishery in the Gulf of Mexico: relation to climatic variability and global atmospheric patterns

Teleconnections and health

Implications for ENSO forecasts

Teleconnections and their implications for long-range forecasts

Index

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