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  title info:
    title: Seasonal Climate: Forecasting and Managing Risk
  title info:
    title: Book derived from the NATO Advanced Study Institute on Seasonal to Interannual Climate Variability: its Prediction and Impact on Society, Gallipoli, Italy, 23 May - 3 June 2005
  name:
    name part: Troccoli, Alberto.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Harrison, Mike.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Anderson, David L. T.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Mason, Simon J.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2008
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XIV, 467 p. online resource.
  abstract: Originally formed around a set of lectures presented at a NATO Advanced Study Institute (ASI), this book has grown in scope and in aspiration to become organised and presented rather more as a textbook than as a standard “collection of proceedings”. The lack of a unified reference textbook covering both the science of seasonal to interannual predictions and real-world uses of the forecasts was the main driver for the effort placed into writing an amalgamated introductory book, each chapter of which has been thoroughly peer reviewed. Throughout, our objective has been to present a book accessible to people from diverse disciplines, both scientific and social, interested in this intriguing and fast emerging area. The fascination of seasonal climate forecasting, for which El Niño forecasting provides the prime basis, derives from its multi-faceted character. Not only does it pose exciting new scientific challenges for the climate community, but it is linked naturally to a great variety of key practical concerns, from security related issues, such as water resource management, food security, and disaster prediction and prevention, to health planning, agriculture management, energy supply, and tourism, to name but a few. Seasonal to interannual climate forecasts are indeed becoming a most important element in certain policy/decision making systems, not least within the contexts of sustainable development and of climate change adaptation.
  table of contents: Seasonal Climate Forecasts in Context -- Seasonal Forecasts in Decision Making -- The Production of Seasonal Climate Forecasts -- Overview of Seasonal Forecasting -- Ocean–Atmosphere Basis for Seasonal Climate Forecasting -- Getting the Coupled Model Ready at the Starting Blocks -- Modelling the Atmospheric, Oceanic and Coupled System -- Statistical Modelling -- Calibration and Assessment of Seasonal Climate Forecasts -- From Dynamical Model Predictions to Seasonal Climate Forecasts -- An Introduction to Probability Forecasting -- How Do We Know Whether Seasonal Climate Forecasts are Any Good? -- Developing Successful Application Strategies -- Communicating Seasonal Forecasts -- Building National and Specialised Climate Services -- Water, Health and Early Warnings -- The Future of Seasonal Climate Forecasting -- A Way Forward for Seasonal Climate Services.
  note: edited by Alberto Troccoli, Mike Harrison, David L. T. Anderson, Simon J. Mason.
  subject:
    topic: Earth sciences
  subject:
    topic: Climate change
  subject:
    topic: Atmospheric sciences
  subject:
    topic: Tropical medicine
  subject:
    topic: Environmental economics
  subject:
    topic: Earth Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Atmospheric Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Climate Change Management and Policy
  subject:
    topic: Environmental Economics
  subject:
    topic: Tropical Medicine
  classification: QC851-999
  classification: 551.5
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: NATO Science Series, 82
  identifier: 9781402069925
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6992-5
  record info:
    record creation date: 100301
    record change date: 20151204165303.0
    record identifier: 978-1-4020-6992-5