Indonesian Rainfall

ISBN-13: 9783836409131 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 172 str.

Edvin Aldrian

Opis

This book provides a comprehensive introduction on the rainfall characteristicsin a tropical area, Indonesia, on a time scale monthly to interannual.Unlike the monsoonal South Asia and East Asia, the Southeast Asian monsoon,especially over Indonesia is still not well understood. Chapters of thisbook stand for basic pillars in the rainfall characteristics in Indonesia; fromthe representation of rainfall from observation, representation of rainfall inthe global model or reanalyses, representation of rainfall in the regional climatemodel, the introduction of the ocean climate in Indonesia related to therainfall and the coupled ocean atmosphere aspects of the Indonesian rainfall.This book covers basic annual patterns and their regionalizations as well asocean atmosphere mechanisms that drive them and how those annual patternsinterplay to regional phenomena such as ENSO. The objective of thisbook is to describe how well the performance of multi level climate modelsover the tropics, especially in the representation of Indonesian rainfall. Thereader of this book shall be the climatologist, atmospheric science, oceanographerand hydrologist who are interested in the climate and air sea interactionsof the tropics.