Climate dynamics : why does climate vary? / De-Zheng Sun, Frank Bryan, editors.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The multiscale organization of moist convection and the intersection of weather and climate / Mitchell W. Moncrieff -- Monsoon climate variabilities / Tim Li -- A brief introduction to El Niño and La Niña / Cecile Penland [and others] -- A linear stochastic model of tropical sea surface temperatures related to El Niño / Cecile Penland -- The diabatic and nonlinear aspects of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation: implications for its past and future behavior / De-Zheng Sun -- El Niño-Southern Oscillation ocean dynamics: simulation by coupled general circulation models / Antonietta Capotondi -- Extratropical air-sea interaction, sea surface temperature variability, and the Pacific Decadal Oscillation / Michael Alexander -- Northern Hemisphere extratropical tropospheric planetary waves and their low-frequency variability: their vertical structure and interaction with transient eddies and surface thermal contrasts / Hisashi Nakamura [and others] -- Arctic sea ice and the potential for abrupt loss / Marika M. Holland -- Global warming and tropical cyclone activity in the western North Pacific from an observational perspective / Johnny C.L. Chan.

'Climate Dynamics: Why Does Climate Vary? presents the major climate phenomena within the climate system to underscore the potency of dynamics in giving rise to climate change and variability. These phenomena include deep convection over the Indo-Pacific warm pool and its planetary-scale organization: the Madden-Julian Oscillation, the monsoons, the El Niño-Southern Oscillation, the Pacific Decadal Oscillation, and the low-frequency variability of extratropical circulations. The volume also has a chapter focusing on the discussion of the causes of the recent melting of Arctic sea ice and a chapter devoted to the discussion of the causes of recent changes in the frequency and intensity of tropical cyclones. On each topic, the basic material of climate dynamics is covered to aid the understanding of the forefront research, making the volume accessible to a broad spectrum of readers.'--Publisher's description.