This book provides a comprehensive introduction on the rainfall characteristics
in 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 this
book stand for basic pillars in the rainfall characteristics in Indonesia; from
the representation of rainfall from observation, representation of rainfall in
the global model or reanalyses, representation of rainfall in the regional climate
model, the introduction of the ocean climate in Indonesia...