"This book is a collection of 18 review articles about monsoons and monsoon-related topics. ... This book appeals to researchers in monsoon and monsoon-related topics. It is also useful to graduate students in tropical meteorology. ... The significant strengths of this book are its broad scope, long bibliography, and the mostly up-to-date information it provides. ... Many chapters contain useful discussion of future research directions. ... I do recommend this book to all people who study monsoons and monsoon-related topics." (Winston C. Chao, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, March, 2008)
1. Elementary monsoon physics.- 2. Monsoon as coupled atmosphere-ocean-land system.- 3. Global aspects and Asian monsoon circulations systems.- 4. Mean annual cycle of the Asian monsoon.- 5. Severe weather events in Asian monsoon.- 6. Intraseasonal Oscillation.- 7. Interannual variations and ENSO-AM interaction.- 8. Interdecadal variability.- 9. Paleo-monsoon variations.- 10. Numerical modeling and prediction.- 11. Anthropogenic changes.- 12. Monsoon environments.- Appendices: Statistical analysis approaches.
