Table of Contents
Foreword v
Preface vii
Chapter 1 Old and New Faces of Climate Variations Toshio Yamagata Yushi Morioka Swadhin Behera 1
Chapter 2 Ocean Processes Relevant to Climate Variations in the Indian Ocean Sector Yukio Masumoto Motoki Nagura Toru Miyama Shang-Ping Xie Zuojun Yu Julian P. McCreary, Jr. P. N. Vinayachandran Raleigh R. Hood Hezi Gildor 25
Chapter 3 Current Status of Intraseasonal-Seasonal-to-Inter annual Prediction of the Indo-Pacific Climate Jing-Jia Luo Chaoxia Yuan Wataru Sasaki Swadhin K. Behera Yukio Masumoto Toshio Yamagata June-Yi Lee Sebastien Masson 63
Chapter 4 Energetics of the Global Ocean: The Role of Mesoscale Eddies Hidenori Aiki Xiaoming Zhai Richard J. Greatbatch 109
Chapter 5 Parametrization of the Ocean Mixed Layer and Its Influence on the OGCM Yign Noh 135
Chapter 6 Western Pacific and Marginal Sea Processes Tangdong Qu Tornoki Tozuka Shinichiro Kida Xinyu Guo Yasumasa Miyazawa Qinyu Liu 151
Chapter 7 Air-Sea Interaction Over the Western Boundary Currents in the Western North Pacific Shoshiro Minobe Bo Qiu Masami Nonaka Hisashi Nakamura 187
Chapter 8 An Overview of Coupled GCM Biases in the Tropics Ingo Richter Takeshi Doi Ping Chang Zhao Xu Takahito Kataoka Tomoki Tozuka Motoki Nagura Pascal Oettli Simon P. de Szoeke 213
Chapter 9 Dynamical Downscaling of Seasonal Climate in Southern Africa J. Venkaia Ratnam Satyaban B. Ratna Swadhin K. Behera G. J. deW. Rautenbach Keiko Takakashi Toshio Yarnagata 265
Chapter 10 Characterizing the Reliability of Global Crop Prediction Based on Seasonal Climate Forecasts Toshichika Iizumi Masayuki Yokozawa Gen Sakurai Hirofumi Sakuma Jing-Jia Luo Andrew J. Challinor Toshio Yamagata 281
Chapter 11 Weathering Global Climate Change Antonio Navarra George Philander 305
