Introduction to Climate Dynamics

Author: Li Chongyin
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Publish Date: 2005-03-01
Features: The publication of Introduction to Climate Dynamics has been well-received by readers both domestically and internationally. Many universities and research institutions have also used this book as a textbook for doctoral students, for which the author expresses deep gratitude. While retaining the original structure, minor printing errors in the first edition have been corrected, and new content has been added. The second edition of this book includes the following additional content: Chapter 1 now includes information on international climate change and predictability research programs; Chapter 4 has been expanded to include the dynamics of evaporation-wind feedback and the influence of basic airflow on atmospheric intraseasonal oscillations; Chapter 5 now features the theory of envelope Rossby wave solitons; Chapter 7 has been enhanced with atmospheric circulation composite analysis of ENSO, simulation results of the air-sea coupled model showing how winter wind anomalies excite ENSO, the significant role of subsurface sea temperature anomalies in the warm pool in triggering ENSO, and the dynamics of intraseasonal oscillations in exciting ENSO. Notably, the second edition introduces a new Chapter 11, "Decadal and Interdecadal Climate Change," and renumbers the original Chapters 11 and 12 as the new Chapters 12 and 13, respectively.