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• An Introduction to the Dynamics of El Niño & the Southern Oscillation
  Allan J. Clarke
  
  ISBN: 0120885484 / Elsevier, 2008
  
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  Many scientists either working on the El Nino/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) problem or its many applications have not been trained in both the equatorial ocean and atmospheric dynamics necessary to understand it. This book seeks to overcome this difficulty by providing a step by step introduction to ENSO, helping the upper level graduate student or research scientist to learn quickly the ENSO basics and be up to date with the latest ENSO research. The text assumes that the reader has a knowledge of the equations of fluid mechanics on a rotating earth and emphasizes the observations and simple physical explanations of them.
  
  Following a history of ENSO and a discussion of ENSO observations in Chapters 1 and 2, Chapters 3-5 consider relevant equatorial ocean dynamics, Chapters 6 and 9 relevant atmospheric dynamics, and Chapters 7 and 8 the main paradigms for how the Pacific Ocean and atmosphere couple together to produce ENSO. Chapter 8 also discusses the old mystery of why ENSO tends to be locked in phase with the seasonal cycle. Successful dynamical and statistical approaches to ENSO prediction are discussed in Chapters 10 and 11 while Chapter 12 concludes the book with examples of how ENSO influences marine and bird life.


• Currents of change : El Niño's impact on climate and society
  Michael H. Glantz
  
  ISBN: 0521576598 / Great Britain : Cambridge U Pr, 1996
  
  
  Book details and order information can be found HERE and HERE - Cambridge U. Press.
  
  Want to see what the draft cover (not used) of this book looked like? See it HERE.
  
  
  Contents:
  
  1. Introduction/
  
  2. El Niño/
  
  3. A tale of two histories/
  
  4. The biography of El Niño/
  
  5. The 1982-83 El Niño: A case of anomalous anomaly/
  
  6. Forecasting El Niño/
  
  7. Teleconnections/
  
  8. Methods used to identify El Niño/
  
  9. International science/
  
  10. Why care about El Niño/
  
  11. `In Their Own Words'/
  
  12. Usable science
  
  

  El Niño Southern Oscillation & Climatic Variability

  Allan, Rob / Lindesay, Janette / Parker, David
  

  ISBN: 0643058036 CD-Rom / International Specialized Book Services, 1996
  
  

  El Niño & the Peruvian Anchoy Fishery

  Laws, Edward A., University of Hawaii, Manoa
  

  ISBN: 0935702806 / University Science Books, 1996
  

  Book details and order information can be found HERE.
  
  

  Table of Contents:

  Preface
  

  1. The Finite Resource
  

  2. The Limitations of Marine Productivity
  

  3. El Niño
  

  4. The Ecology of the Peruvian Anchovy
  

  5. Fisheries Management
  

  6. History of the Fishery
  

  7. ANCHOVY: The Management Simulation
  

  8. Discussion
  

  Appendix. Global Circulation and El Niño
  

  Glossary
  

  Suggested Additional Reading and References
  

  The ANCHOVY Simulation
  
  

  Learning to Predict Climate Variations Associated with El Niño & the Southern Oscillation, Accomplishments and Legacies of the TOGA Program

  National Research Council, Advisory Panel for the Tropical Ocean & Global Atmosphere Program
  

  ISBN: 0309053420 / National Academy Press, 1996
  
  

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  El Niño : historical and paleoclimatic aspects of the southern oscillation

  Henry F. Diaz and Vera Markgraf
  

  ISBN: 0521430429 / Cambridge University Press, 1993
  
  

  Book details and order information can be found HERE.
  
  

  Contents:
  

  ENSO in the Modern Record /
  

  Use of Historical Records in ENSO Reconstructions /
  

  Paleoclimate Reconstructions of El Niño /
  

  Southern Oscillation From Tree-Ring Records /
  

  Records from Ice Cores and Corals /
  

  Low Resolution Paleoclimate Reconstruction of El Niño /
  

  Southern Oscillation: Marine and Terrestrial Proxy Indicators.
  
  

  The El Niño phenomenon

  United Nations Environment Programme
  

  United Nations Environment Programme / Series: UNEP/GEMS environment library ; no. 8, 1992
  
  

  Climate change and its biological consequences

  David M. Gates
  

  ISBN: 0878932240 (pbk.) / Sinauer Associates, c1993
  
  

  Contents:
  

  Climate change : cause and evidence --
  

  Past climates --
  

  Plant physiognomy and physiology --
  

  Past vegetational changes --
  

  Forest models and the future --
  

  Ecosystems --
  

  Agriculture, droughts, and El Niño --
  

  What to do?
  
  

  Climate Variability, Climate Change and Fisheries

  Glantz, Michael H. (ed.)
  
  

  Book details and order information can be found HERE.
  
  
  

  Contents:

  1. King Crab Dethroned, W. Wooster/
  2. The Rise and Fall of California Sardine Empire, E. Ueber and A. MacCall/
  3. El Niño and Variability in the Northeastern Pacific Salmon Fishery--Implications for Coping with Climate Change, K. Miller and D. Fluharty/
  4. The U.S. Gulf Shrimp Fishery, R. Condrey and D. Fuller/
  5. The Menhaden Fishery--Interactions of Climate, Industry and Society, L. Feingold/
  6. Marine Lobster Industry, J. Acheson/
  7. Human Responses to the Weather-Induced Catastrophes in a West Mexican Fishery, J. McGoodwin/
  8. Irruption of Sea Lamprey in the Upper Great Lakes--Analogous Events to Those That May Follow Climate Warming, H. Regier and J. Goodier/
  9. North Sea Herring Fluctuations, R. Bailey and J.Steele/
  10. Atlanto-Scandian Herring--A Case Study, A. Krovnin and S. Radionov/
  11. Global Warming Impacts on Living Marine Resources--the Anglo-Icelandic Cod Wars as an Analogy, M.H. Glantz/
  12. Adjustments of Polish Fisheries to Changes in the Environment, Z. Russek/
  13. Climate Dependent Fluctuations in the Far Eastern Sardine Population and their Impacts on Fisheries and Society, T. Kawaski/
  14. The Peru-Chilean Eastern Pacific Fisheries and Climatic Oscillation, C. Caviedes and T. Fik/
  15. Climate Change. the Indian Ocean Tuna Fishery, and Empiricism, G. Sharp

  
  
  

  The El Niño phenomenon

  United Nations Environment Programme
  

  United Nations Environment Programme / Series: UNEP/GEMS environment library ; no. 8, 1992
  
  

  Teleconnections linking worldwide climate anomalies : scientific basis and societal impact

  Glantz, Michael H., ed. / Katz, Richard W., ed. / Nicholls, Neville, ed.
  

  ISBN: 0521364752 / Cambridge Univ. Press, 1991
  
  
  

  Pinnipeds & El Niño Responses to Environmental Stress

  Trillmich, F. / Ono, K. A.
  

  ISBN: 0387536345 / Springer-Verlag New York ; Series: Ecological Studies Vol. 88, 1991
  
  

  Global ecological consequences of the 1982-83 El Niño-Southern Oscillation

  Glynn, Peter W.
  

  ISBN: 0444883037 / Elsevier, 1990
  
  

  El Niño, la Nina, & the Southern Oscillation

  Philander, S. George
  

  ISBN: 0125532350 / Academic Press, 1989
  
  

  Order information for this book is HERE.
  
  

  El Niño/southern oscillation and physical processes of the tropical oceans : a bibliography

  Witte, Janet M.
  

  University Corporation for Atmospheric Research / Series note: USTOGA ; 7, 1986.
  
  

  El Niño and outgoing longwave radiation : an atlas of Nimbus-7 Earth Radiation Budget observations

  Kyle, H. Lee.
  

  National Aeronautics & Space Adm. Scientific & Tech. Information Branch, 1986
  
  

  El Niño North Nino Effects in the Eastern Subarctic Pacific Ocean

  Wooster, Warren S. / Fluharty, David L.
  

  ISBN: 0934539014 / Washington Sea Grant Program : Workshop Proceedings Ser., 1985
  
  

  WMO Publication No. 649. El Niño phenomenon and fluctuations of climate--Lectures presented at the thirty-sixth session of the WMO Executive Council

  WMO Executive Council
  
  

  Contents: Four lectures are presented:

  1. "The characteristics of the 1982/1983 El Niño off the Pacific coast of South America";
  2. "The ecological and economic impacts of the El Niño phenomenon in the south-east Pacific";
  3. "Research on El Niño", and
  4. "El Niño--Southern Oscillation and investigations of short-range climate variations according to the programme 'Sections'"., 1984

  
  

  This item can be purchased from the WMO
  
  

  El Niño and the Southern Oscillation : a scientific plan

  National Research Council (U.S.). Climate Research Committee
  

  National Academy Press ; , 1983
  
  

  Proceedings of the Workshop on the Phenomenon known as "El Niño," Guayaquil, Ecuador, 4-12 December 1974

  Workshop on the Phenomenon known as "El Niño" (1974 : Guayaquil, Ecuador)
  

  ISBN: 9231015095 / Unesco, 1980