Monday 23 November 2009

La Niña and Its Impacts

Facts and Speculation

Edited by Michael H. Glantz

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Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9280810715

Glantz, M.H. (Ed.), 2002: La Niña and Its Impacts: Facts and Speculation. Tokyo, Japan: UN University Press, 271 pp.

Description:

La Niña and Its Impacts is based on a meeting of researchers, forecasters, and users of La Niña forecasts, held at the U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado. La Niña, the result of air-sea interaction, can briefly be described as the appearance of cold surface water in the central and eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean. While people around the globe have become familiar with El Niño and its impacts, its counterpart, La Niña, is not so well known. Researchers at this La Niña Summit indicated that for many societies La Niña events can be as devastating as those of El Niño.

The overriding purpose of the Summit was to draw attention to the importance of improving our understanding of the La Niña phenomenon, identifying what is known, what is not yet known, and what societies need to know in order to prepare for La Niña's impacts. This volume provides the current state of the science of forecasting La Niña as well as case studies of La Niña impacts around the world and in different economic sectors.

La Niña and Its Impacts presents updated La Niña Summit papers to introduce the reader to La Niña and offers a glimpse of the state of scientific knowledge about cold events and their impacts in developing as well as industrialized societies

About the Editor

Michael H. Glantz is a Research Scientist at the Consortium for Capacity Building (CCB). He is interested in how climate affects society and how society affects climate, especially how the interaction between climate anomalies and human activities affect quality of life around the globe.

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