Monday 23 November 2009

Currents of Change:
Impacts of El Niño and La Niña on Climate and Society

(2nd edition)
by Michael H. Glantz
Published by Cambridge University Press.

Ordering information:
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 052178672X
UK Published Price: GBP 17.95

Publication available November 2000

Description:

The periodic warming and cooling of the tropical Pacific Ocean’s surface waters generate droughts, hurricanes, and floods worldwide. El Niño’s impacts are now widely known, but the equally serious consequences of its counterpart, La Niña, are only now being highlighted. Although both phenomena have generally been associated with death and destruction, there are benefits in understanding more about their occurrence, their strength and their impacts worldwide, so that their worst effects can be forecast and mitigated. This new edition of Currents of Change explains in simple terms what El Niño and La Niña are and how they can be forecast. Examining for the first time the major El Niño of 1997-1998, this book explores what we can learn from past events, what we can do to ameliorate the worst excesses of these phenomena and how climate change might affect them in future decades.

Chapter Contents:

Acknowledgments
Preface to second edition
Preface to first edition
Introduction Chapter 1
El Niño Chapter 2
A tale of two histories Chapter 3
The biography of El Niño Chapter 4
The biography of La Niña Chapter 5
The 1982-1983 El Niño: a case of an anomalous anomaly Chapter 6
Forecasting El Niño Chapter 7
Forecasting the 1997-1998 El Niño Chapter 8
Teleconnections Chapter 9
El Niño’s ecological impacts: The Galapagos Chapter 10
Methods used to identify El Niño Chapter 11
El Niño and health Chapter 12
The media, El Niño and La Niña: a study in media-rology Chapter 13
Why do ENSO events continue to surprise us? Chapter 14
What people need to know about El Niño Chapter 15
Usable science Chapter 16
Appendix
References

 

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