Intraseasonal Variability in the Atmosphere-Ocean Climate System

William K. M. Lau and Duane E. Waliser

To improve weather prediction of the atmosphere-ocean in the intermediary time scale (20-90 days), it is vital that phenomena which are inherently intraseasonal, and the manner in which they interact with both shorter (weather) and longer (climate) time scales, are better understood. As is often said in forecasting communities, forecasting the weather is an initial value problem, and climate prediction is a boundary value problem. But what about the time scales in between, such as lead times of 20­90 days? Are there atmosphere-ocean phenomena with these time scales that are predictable, and how do these phenomena and their predictability respond to the changing boundary conditions at the Earthıs surface? These are among some of the issues addressed in this book.

Intraseasonal Variability in the Atmosphere-Ocean Climate System

• summarizes the current understanding of intraseasonal variability (ISV) and its interactions with other weather and climate processes
• focuses specifically on ISV in the tropical ocean and atmosphere, including its impacts on the extra-tropics
• shows that ISV is far from a simple interpolation between weather and climate scales/processes, nor is it just a red-noise extension of weather variability

Table of Contents

• Preface
• List of figures
• Abbreviations
  1. Historical perspective (R. A. Madden and P. R. Julian)
  2. South Asian monsoon (B. N. Goswami\mkern 2mu )
  3. East Asian monsoon (H.-H. Hsu)
  4. Pan-America (K. C. Mo and J. N. Paegle)
  5. Australian/Indonesian monsoon (M. C. Wheeler and J. L. McBride)
  6. The oceans (W. S. Kessler)
  7. Air/sea interaction (H. Hendon)
  8. Mass, momentum, and geodynamics (B. F. Chao and D. A. Salstein)
  9. El Niño Southern Oscillation connection (W. K. M. Lau)
  10. Theory (B. Wang)
  11. Modeling (J. M. Slingo, P. M. Inness, and K. R. Sperber)
  12. Predictability and forecasting (D. Waliser)
• Index

Extent: 474 pages; 16-page colour section
Binding: Hardback
Publication Date: January 2005
ISBN: 978-3-540-22276-7

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