Introduction to Climate Dynamics (Second Edition)

Author: Li Chongyin
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Publish Date: 2000-12-01
Features: The publication of Introduction to Climate Dynamics has been well-received by readers both domestically and internationally. Many universities and research institutions also use this book as a textbook for doctoral students, for which the author expresses deep gratitude. Based on retaining the original structure, in addition to correcting some printing errors in the first edition, new content has been added. The second edition includes the following additions: Chapter 1 now includes content on international climate change and predictability research programs; Chapter 4 adds an analysis of the evaporation-wind feedback and the influence of basic flow on the dynamics of atmospheric intraseasonal oscillations; Chapter 5 introduces the theory of envelope Rossby wave solitons; and Chapter 7 includes an atmospheric circulation synthesis analysis of ENSO, the simulation results of the ocean-atmosphere coupled model for the excitation of ENSO by winter wind anomalies, the significant role of subsurface sea temperature anomalies in the warm pool in triggering ENSO, and the dynamics of ENSO excitation by atmospheric intraseasonal oscillations. 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.