Seasonal Climate: Forecasting and Managing Risk

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Troccoli, Alberto (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Harrison, Mike (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Anderson, David L. T. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Mason, Simon J. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2008.
• Σειρά: NATO Science Series, 82
• Θέματα: Earth sciences.; Climate change.; Atmospheric sciences.; Tropical medicine.; Environmental economics.; Earth Sciences.; Atmospheric Sciences.; Climate Change Management and Policy.; Environmental Economics.; Tropical Medicine.

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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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.