Edward S Sarachik, Mark A Cane

Broschiertes Buch

The El Niño-Southern Oscillation Phenomenon

Beschreibung

An introduction to understanding the ENSO phenomenon, given in an observational and theoretical context, and exploring its predictability and impacts.

Autor

Edward S. Sarachik is Emeritus Professor of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Washington. He has been an active contributor to research on tropical meteorology, tropical oceanography and coupled interactions in the tropics. He has also worked on other problems of oceanography, in particular the global thermohaline circulation. Professor Sarachik has served on nineteen National Research Council committees, chairing two, in particular the Tropical Ocean Global Atmosphere (TOGA) Panel. He worked to found the International Research Institute for Climate and Society and has chaired IRI advisory committees since its inception. Until his retirement, he co-directed the Center for Science in the Earth System at the University of Washington, a center devoted to the dynamics of climate variability and change and impacts of such variability and change on the ecology, built environment, and people of the Pacific Northwest of the United States. He is a fellow of the American Meteorological Society, the American Geophysical Union, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 383
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 608g
• ISBN-13: 9781108445702
• ISBN-10: 1108445705
• Artikelnr.: 49444151