Climate Dynamics: Why Does Climate Vary? (Hardcover)

Preface
De-Zheng Sun and Frank Bryan vii

Introduction
De-Zheng Sun and Frank Bryan 1

The Multiscale Organization of Moist Convection and the Intersection of Weather and Climate
Mitchell W. Moncrieff 3

Monsoon Climate Variabilities
Tim Li 27

A Brief Introduction to El Niño and La Niña
Cécile Penland, De-Zheng Sun, Antonietta Capotondi, and Daniel J. Vimont 53

A Linear Stochastic Model of Tropical Sea Surface Temperatures Related to El Niño
Cécile Penland 65

The Diabatic and Nonlinear Aspects of the El Niño–Southern Oscillation: Implications for Its Past and Future Behavior
De-Zheng Sun 79

El Niño-Southern Oscillation Ocean Dynamics: Simulation by Coupled General Circulation Models
Antonietta Capotondi 105

Extratropical Air-Sea Interaction, Sea Surface Temperature Variability, and the Pacific Decadal Oscillation
Michael Alexander 123

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, Takafumi Miyasaka, Yu Kosaka, Koutarou Takaya, and Meiji Honda 149

Artic Sea Ice and the Potential for Abrupt Loss
Marika M. Holland 181

Global Warming and Tropical Cyclone Activity in the Western North Pacific From an Observational Perspective
Johnny C. L. Chan 193

AGU Category Index 207

Index 209