Natural Decadal Climate Variability: Phenomena, Mechanisms, and Predictability

ISBN-13: 9781138484146 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 356 str.

Vikram M. Mehta

Opis

This book familiarizes readers with the importance of understanding and predicting DCV phenomena and its distinction from ACC phenomena and explains the physics of DCV and clarifies the results of new observations and research. It addresses questions raised for possible solutions, for observing system requirements and model developments.

Spis treści

Prologue. Solar Influences and the Earth’s Climate Variability. Slowly Oscillates the Pacific. Tropical Atlantic Dipole: Mystery or Myth?. On the Waves of the Sindhu Mahasagar. What’s In a NAM(e)?. SAM, The Albatross. Natural Decadal Climate Variability and Anthropogenic Climate Change. Modulations of Tropical Cyclones. Looking Through a Cloudy Crystal Ball. Epilogue

O autorze

Dr. Vikram Mehta earned his M.Sc. in Physics in 1977 and his PhD in Space Sciences in 1979 from Gujarat University, Ahmedabad, India. He then became an Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) Research Fellow at the Space Applications Centre, ISRO, Ahmedabad, India. He studied upper atmospheric physics at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, Canada, from 1982 to 1984, earning a post-graduate diploma in physics. A strong interest in more application-oriented scientific research led him to the Department of Meteorology at the Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida, where he earned his M.S. in 1986 and Ph.D. in meteorology in 1990. After his Ph.D. work on natural decadal climate variability (DCV), Vikram was a research scientist from 1990 to 2002 at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)–Goddard Space Flight Center and the University of Maryland–College Park, conducting further research on DCV. Strongly motivated to use climate science for societal benefits, Vikram founded the Center for Research on the Changing Earth System (CRCES), a nonprofit, scientific research organization in Columbia, Maryland, in 2002. Currently, he is the President and Executive Director of CRCES, which specializes in research on DCV and its impacts on water, food, energy, and water-borne transportation. Vikram also served as the Executive Director of the Indian Centre for Climate and Societal Impacts Research (ICCSIR) in Ahmedabad, India, from 2008 to 2013. Vikram’s major research interests include understanding and prediction of DCV; assessment and prediction of DCV impacts on regional and global water– food–energy–public health securities; and climate and public policy. Vikram has published more than 150 research papers and conference/workshop contributions. For outstanding achievements in climate science, the Non-Resident Indian Welfare Society of India bestowed on Vikram the Mahatma Gandhi Samman (Honor) in 2012 in a ceremony in the House of Lords of the U.K. Parliament in London; and their highest award, the Hind Ratna (Jewel of India), in 2015 in New Delhi, India.