Natural Decadal Climate Variability
Phenomena, Mechanisms, and Predictability
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
Published:20th Nov '20
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Natural decadal climate variability (DCV) and its interactions with anthropogenic climate change (ACC) are vitally important to understand to predict the future of the Earth’s climate. This book, after familiarizing readers with the importance of understanding and predicting DCV phenomena and its distinction from ACC phenomena, comprehensively explains the physics of DCV, integrating paleoclimate proxy and modern instrument-based data and simulations with climate models.
Features of this book:
- Uniquely focuses on natural DCV, its physics, and its predictability
- Presents an integrated view of DCV phenomena based on approximately 700 peer-reviewed publications cited in the book
- Includes research on influences of decadal variability in solar emissions on the Earth’s climate, with a historical perspective going back several centuries
- Describes progress in decadal climate predictability and prediction research, with a historical perspective on weather and climate predictability research
This book is an excellent resource for graduate students, faculty members and other teachers and researchers, and anyone who is interested in learning about a very important component of the puzzle of the changing climate.
"This book provides a comprehensive review…. Highlighted throughout the book are potential links between DCV and solar variability, a fascinating topic that has engaged our minds for centuries. Written by an expert with more than 30 years’ experience, this book should be an invaluable resource for students and researchers interested in how our climate will evolve over the coming decades."
Doug Smith, Decadal Climate Prediction Leader, Meteorological Office Hadley Centre, UK
"This book is a tour de force by the author who has spent his career studying decadal climate variability. He brings new insights to the vast scope of this topic, providing clearly understandable descriptions of the various aspects."
Gerald Meehl, Senior Scientist, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Colorado, USA
"Vikram Mehta has been actively involved in decadal climate variability (DCV) research for decades. This book is an eyewitness report about the fascinating science of DCV."
Prof. Dr. Mojib Latif, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Germany
"We are becoming used to the fact that the climate is changing due to human influences, but in our lifetimes most of us will be much more affected by decadal climate variability. This book provides a comprehensive review, covering DCV in the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian Oceans as well as in tropical cyclones and extratropical winds. Highlighted throughout the book are potential links between DCV and solar variability, a fascinating topic that has engaged our minds for centuries. Written by an expert with more than 30 years’ experience, this book should be an invaluable resource for students and researchers interested in how our climate will evolve over the coming decades."
Dr. Doug Smith, Met Office Hadley Centre, UK
"Provides a comprehensive account of decadal time-scale variations in the global and regional climate, that are of societal relevance. There is a detailed discussion on solar influences on the Earth’s climate variability, along with supporting examples of natural DCV and their interactions with human-induced climate change. This book will be useful for policy makers also."
Dr. Krishnan Raghavan, Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune, India
"This book is a tour de force by the author who has spent his career studying decadal climate variability. He brings new insights to the vast scope of this topic, providing clearly understandable descriptions of the various aspects. This compelling treatment of a highly relevant area of climate science will clarify these complex topics for readers who have varying familiarities with science. The book can be read as not only a general overview of decadal climate variability, but also as a primer on the scientific details of such variability and predictions. Additionally, it serves as a guide to the impacts that arise as a consequence of climate variability on the timescales of seasons to decades."
Dr. Gerald Meehl, Senior Scientist, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Colorado, USA
ISBN: 9781138484146
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 850g
356 pages