Earth's Climate

Copyright 2004 by the American Geophysical Union.

Earth's Climate

Editor(s): C. Wang, S.P. Xie, J.A. Carton

Published Online: 19 MAR 2013

Print ISBN: 9780875904122

Online ISBN: 9781118665947

DOI: 10.1029/GM147

About this Book

Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geophysical Monograph Series, Volume 147.

In order to cover the now global context of ocean-atmosphere interaction we have organized this monograph around five principal themes, each introduced by one or more broad overview papers. Theme I covers interaction and climate variability in the Pacific sector, with extensive discussion of El Niño-Southern Oscillation, and with the possible causes and consequences of variability on both shorter and longer timescales. Theme II is devoted to interaction in the Atlantic sector. This basin exhibits complex behavior, reflecting its geographic location between two major zones of convection as well as neighboring the tropical Pacific. Theme III reviews the recent, exciting progress in our understanding of climate variability in the Indian sector. Theme IV addresses the interaction between the tropics and the extratropics, which are linked through the presence of shallow meridional overturning cells in the ocean. Finally, Theme V discusses overarching issues of cross-basin interaction.

Table of contents

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      Front Matter (pages i–viii)

    2. A Global Survey of Ocean–Atmosphere Interaction and Climate Variability (pages 1–19)

      Chunzai Wang, Shang-Ping Xie and James A. Carton

    3. Understanding Enso Physics—A Review (pages 21–48)

      Chunzai Wang and JoëL Picaut

    4. Westerly Wind Events in the Tropical Pacific and their Influence on the Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere System: A Review (pages 49–69)

      Matthieu Lengaigne, Jean-Philippe Boulanger, Christophe Menkes, Pascale Delecluse and Julia Slingo

    5. The Control of Meridional Differential Surface Heating Over the Level of Enso Activity: A Heat-Pump Hypothesis (pages 71–83)

      De-Zheng Sun

    6. Broadening the Atmospheric Bridge Paradigm: ENSO Teleconnections to the Tropical West Pacific-Indian Oceans Over the Seasonal Cycle and to the North Pacific in Summer (pages 85–103)

      Michael A. Alexander, Ngar-Cheung Lau and James D. Scott

    7. Predicting Pacific Decadal Variability (pages 105–120)

      Richard Seager, Alicia R. Karspeck, Mark A. Cane, Yochanan Kushnir, Alessandra Giannini, Alexey Kaplan, Ben Kerman and Jennifer Velez

    8. Tropical Atlantic Variability: Patterns, Mechanisms, and Impacts (pages 121–142)

      Shang-Ping Xie and James A. Carton

    9. On the Role of the South Atlantic Atmospheric Circulation in Tropical Atlantic Variability (pages 143–156)

      Marcelo Barreiro, Alessandra Giannini, Ping Chang and R. Saravanan

    10. Toward Understanding Tropical Atlantic Variability Using Coupled Modeling Surgery (pages 157–170)

      Lixin Wu, Qiong Zhang and Zhengyu Liu

    11. Thermodynamic Coupling and Predictability of Tropical Sea Surface Temperature (pages 171–180)

      R. Saravanan and Ping Chang

    12. Internal Variability of the Tropical Atlantic Ocean (pages 181–188)

      Markus Jochum, Raghu Murtugudde, Paola Malanotte-Rizzoli and Antonio J. Busalacchi

    13. Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Variability in the Tropical Indian Ocean (pages 189–211)

      Toshio Yamagata, Swadhin K. Behera, Jing-Jia Luo, Sebastien Masson, Mark R. Jury and Suryachandra A. Rao

    14. Role of the Indian Ocean in Regional Climate Variability (pages 213–246)

      H. Annamalai and Raghu Murtugudde

    15. Interannual Indian Rainfall Variability and Indian Ocean Sea Surface Temperature Anomalies (pages 247–259)

      Gabriel A. Vecchi and D. E. Harrison

    16. Shallow Overturning Circulations of the Tropical-Subtropical Oceans (pages 261–304)

      Friedrich A. Schott, Julian P. Mccreary and Gregory C. Johnson

    17. Seasonal Variation of the Subtropical/Tropical Pathways in the Atlantic Ocean from an Ocean Data Assimilation Experiment (pages 305–318)

      Meyre P. Da Silva and Ping Chang

    18. Gyre-Connected Variations Inferred from the Circulation Indices in the Northern Pacific Ocean (pages 319–328)

      Dongxiao Wang, Yun Liu and Dejun Gu

    19. Observed Associations Among Storm Tracks, Jet Streams and Midlatitude Oceanic Fronts (pages 329–345)

      Hisashi Nakamura, Takeaki Sampe, Youichi Tanimoto and Akihiko Shimpo

    20. The Relationship of Western Boundary Current Heat Transport and Storage to Midlatitude Ocean-Atmosphere Interaction (pages 347–363)

      Kathryn A. Kelly and Shenfti Dong

    21. Two Different Regimes of Anomalous Walker Circulation Over the Indian and Pacific Oceans Before and After the Late 1970S (pages 365–377)

      Ryuichi Kawamura, Hiromitsu Aruga, Tomonori Matsuura and Satoshi Iizuka

    22. Tropical Tropospheric Temperature and Precipitation Response to Sea Surface Temperature Forcing (pages 379–392)

      Hui Su, J. David Neelin and Joyce E. Meyerson

    23. Convection, Cloud-Radiative Feedbacks and Thermodynamic Ocean Coupling in Simple Models of the Walker Circulation (pages 393–405)

      Adam H. Sobel, Christopher S. Bretherton, Hezi Gildor and Matthew E. Peters

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