As the first comprehensive and authoritative review of intra-seasonal
variability (ISV), this multi-author work balances coverage of
observation, theory and modeling and provides a single source of
reference for all those interested in this important, multi-faceted
natural phenomenon and its relation to major short-term climatic
variations. Commencing with an overview of ISV and observations from an
historical perspective, the book offers successive chapters that deal
with the role of ISV in monsoon variability on the monsoon regions of
South Asia, East Asia and South America, in North America, and in the
oceans. The coupling between ocean and atmosphere is considered,
together with the function of angular momentum and Earth rotation. Later
chapters deal with modeling ISV in the atmosphere and oceans, and the
connection between the Madden and Julian Oscillations, and El
Nino/Southern Oscillation with short-term climate are considered.