Tropical and Extratropical Air-Sea Interactions. Modes of Climate Variations

Table of Contents

1. Introduction to atmosphere and ocean variability and air-sea interactions

2. Impact of Atmosphere-Ocean Interactions on Propagation and Initiation of Boreal Winter and Summer Intraseasonal Oscillations

3. Air-sea interaction in tropical Pacific: The dynamics of ENSO

4. The El Ni�o Modoki

5. Air-sea interactions in tropical Indian Ocean: The IOD

6. The Indo western Pacific Ocean capacitor effect

7. The Atlantic zonal mode: dynamics, thermodynamics, and tele- connections

8. The Ningaloo Ni�o/Ni�a: Mechanisms, Relation with Other Climate Modes and Impacts

9. Interannual-to-decadal variability and predictability in South Atlantic and southern Indian Oceans

10. The other coastal Nino/Nina (the California Nino/Nina, The Dakar Nino/Nina, Benguela Nino/Nina)

11. Impacts of strong warm ocean currents on development of extratropical cyclones 4 through the warm and cold conveyer belts: a review

Authors

Swadhin Kumar Behera Adjunct Professor, University of Tokyo, Japan. Dr. Swadhin Kumar Behera is a distinguished scientist in climate variability and predictability research with a particular emphasis on the role of oceans in modes of tropical and extratropical climate variations. He has been working in JAMSTEC for more than 20 years and is significantly involved in the climate prediction and application research during these years. He currently heads the Application Laboratory and also serves as an adjunct professor in the University of Tokyo. He has published more than 100 articles in highly cited international journals with an average citation of 46 and an h-factor of 34.