Book contents
- Climate Analysis
- Reviews
- Climate Analysis
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations and Acronyms
- 1 Earth’s Climate System
- 2 Climate Analysis
- 3 Climate Analysis
- 4 Climate Variability
- 5 Climate Change
- 6 Temperature
- 7 Precipitation
- 8 Ocean Climate Datasets
- 9 Cryosphere
- 10 Land Component of the Climate System
- 11 Climate Models as Information Sources and Analysis Tools
- 12 Operational Climate Monitoring and Prediction
- Book part
- Glossary
- References
- Index
- References
4 - Climate Variability
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 January 2019
Book contents
- Climate Analysis
- Reviews
- Climate Analysis
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations and Acronyms
- 1 Earth’s Climate System
- 2 Climate Analysis
- 3 Climate Analysis
- 4 Climate Variability
- 5 Climate Change
- 6 Temperature
- 7 Precipitation
- 8 Ocean Climate Datasets
- 9 Cryosphere
- 10 Land Component of the Climate System
- 11 Climate Models as Information Sources and Analysis Tools
- 12 Operational Climate Monitoring and Prediction
- Book part
- Glossary
- References
- Index
- References
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- Climate Analysis , pp. 64 - 103Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019
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Blunden, J. and Arndt, D. D. (eds.), 2013: The State of the Climate in 2012, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Vol. 94, No.8, August 2013, 240 pp Appendix 2. (This reference includes an excellent list of Relevant Datasets and Sources pp S205–S211).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Chang, C.-P. (ed.), 2011: The Global Monsoon System: Research and Forecast, World Meteorological Organization, WMO/TD 1266 (TMRP Report 70). (Proceedings of a WMO workshop that contains overviews by experts of what is known about global monsoon systems.)Google Scholar
Huler, S. 2004: Defining the Wind: The Beaufort Scale and How a Nineteenth-Century Admiral Turned Science into Poetry. Crown Publishers, Random House, 290 pp. ISBN 1-4000-4884-2. (An account of the history of the Beaufort Wind Scale)Google Scholar
Lorenz, E. N., 1967: The Nature and Theory of the General Circulation of the Atmosphere. World Meteorological Organization, Geneva, Switzerland, 161 pp. (A classic monograph on the topic including the early history of attempts to explain the general circulation.)Google Scholar
Rasmusson, E. M., Chelliah, M., and Ropelewski, C. F., 1999: The Observed Climate of the 20th Century, chapter 1, pp. 1–138, in Modeling the Earth’s Climate and Its Variability, Volume 67, Holland, W. R. and Joussaume, S. (eds.) Elsevier Science B.V. (A detailed exposition of observed climate variability)Google Scholar
Sarachik, E. S. and Cane, M. A., 2010: The El Niño-Southern Oscillation Phenomenon. Cambridge University Press, London. 384 pp. (A graduate level text on ENSO.)CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Wallace, J. M., and Hobbs, P. V., 2006: Atmospheric Science, 2nd edition. Academic Press, 483 pp. (A comprehensive undergraduate to graduate-level textbook and reference source covering meteorology and climate.)Google Scholar