El Niño and the southern oscillation : multiscale variability and global and regional impacts /
El Niño & the Southern Oscillation
- 1 online resource (xv, 496 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
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ENSO and climatic variability in the past 150 years / Understanding and predicting extratropical teleconnections related to ENSO / Global modes of ENSO and non-ENSO sea surface temperature variability and their associations with climate / Multiscale streamflow variability associated with El Niño/Southern Oscillation / El Niño/Southern Oscillation and the seasonal predictability of tropical cyclones / Climate and ENSO variability associated with vector-borne diseases in Colombia / Documented historical record of El Niño events in Peru : an update of the Quinn record (sixteenth through nineteenth centuries) / Tree-ring records of past ENSO variability and forcing / Tropical ice-core record of ENSO / Long-term variability in the El Niño/Southern Oscillation and associated teleconnections / Modulation of ENSO variability on decadal and longer timescales / Global climate change and El Niño : a theoretical framework / Past ENSO record : a synthesis / Robert J. Allan -- Martin P. Hoerling and Arun Kumar -- David B. Enfield and Alberto M. Mestas-Nuñez -- Michael D. Dettinger [and others] -- Christopher W. Landsea -- Germán Poveda [and others] -- Luc Ortlieb -- Edward R. Cook [and others] -- Lonnie G. Thompson [and others] -- Michael E. Mann, Raymond S. Bradley, and Malcolm K. Hughes -- Richard Kleeman and Scott B. Power -- De-Zheng Sun -- Vera Markgraf and Henry F. Diaz.
The El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) phenomenon is a recurrent feature of the climate in tropical regions. In this volume leading experts summarize information gained over the past decade concerning diverse aspects of ENSO, which have led to marked improvements in our ability to forecast its development months or seasons in advance. This volume compares ENSO's modern morphology and variability with its recent historic and prehistoric behaviour. It expands and updates Diaz and Markgraf's earlier volume El Niño: Historical and Paleoclimatic Aspects of the Southern Oscillation (1992, Cambridge University Press). The volume will be of importance to a broad range of scientists in meteorology, oceanography, hydrology, geosciences, ecology, public health, emergency management response and mitigation, and decision-making. It will also be used as a supplementary textbook and reference source in graduate courses in environmental studies.