Research Catalog

Title

El Niño : historical and paleoclimatic aspects of the southern oscillation / edited by Henry F. Diaz and Vera Markgraf.

Publication

Cambridge [England] ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1992.

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Additional Authors

• Diaz, Henry F.
• Markgraf, Vera.

Description

xii, 476 pages : illustrations, maps; 26 cm

Subjects

• Southern oscillation
• Southern Oscillation
• El Niño Current
• Oceans > Currents

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• 1. Introduction / Henry F. Diaz and Vera Markgraf -- Sect. A. ENSO in the modern record. 2. Atmospheric teleconnections associated with the extreme phase of the Southern Oscillation / Henry F. Diaz and George N. Kiladis. 3. El Nino/Southern Oscillation and streamflow in the western United States / Daniel R. Cayan and Robert H. Webb. 4. Coupled climate model simulation of El Nino/Southern Oscillation: implications for paleoclimate / Gerald A. Meehl and Grant W. Branstator -- Sect. B. Use of historical records in ENSO reconstructions. 5. Historical and prehistorical overview of El Nino/Southern Oscillation / David B. Enfield. 6. A study of Southern Oscillation-related climatic activity for A.D. 622-1990 incorporating Nile River flood data / William H. Quinn. 7. Historical El Nino/Southern Oscillation variability in the Australasian region / Neville Nicholls. 8. A comparison of Southern Oscillation and El Nino signals in the tropics / Henry F. Diaz and Roger S. Pulwarty.
• 9. Long-term changes in the frequency of occurrence of El Nino events / Roger Y. Anderson -- Sect. C. Paleoclimate reconstructions of El Nino/Southern Oscillation from tree-ring records. 10. Using tree rings to study past El Nino/Southern Oscillation influences on climate / Edward R. Cook. 11. An index of the Southern Oscillation reconstructed from western North American tree-ring chronologies / J. M. Lough. 12. Spectral properties of tree-ring data in the United States Southwest as related to El Nino/Southern Oscillation / David M. Meko. 13. A tree-ring reconstruction of New Mexico winter precipitation and its relation to El Nino/Southern Oscillation events / Roseanne D. D'Arrigo and Gordon C. Jacoby. 14. Temporal patterns of El Nino/Southern Oscillation - wildfire teleconnections in the southwestern United States / Thomas W. Swetnam and Julio L. Betancourt.
• 15. Secular variability of the Southern Oscillation detected in tree-ring data from Mexico and the southern United States / Malcolm K. Cleaveland, Edward R. Cook and David W. Stahle -- Sect. D. Records from ice cores and corals. 16. Reconstructing interannual climate variability from tropical and subtropical ice-core records / L. G. Thompson, E. Mosley-Thompson and P. A. Thompson. 17. A comparison of proxy records of El Nino/Southern Oscillation / Joel Michaelsen and L. G. Thompson. 18. Coral monitors of El Nino/Southern Oscillation dynamics across the equatorial Pacific / Julia E. Cole, Glen T. Shen, Richard G. Fairbanks and Michael Moore -- Sect. E. Low-resolution paleoclimate reconstruction of El Nino/Southern Oscillation: marine and terrestrial proxy indicators. 19. Fishery catch records, El Nino/Southern Oscillation, and longer-term climate change as inferred from fish remains in marine sediments / Gary D. Sharp.
• 20. Long-term changes in El Nino/Southern Oscillation: evidence from marine and lacustrine sediments / Roger Y. Anderson, Andy Soutar and Thomas C. Johnson. 21. El Nino/Southern Oscillation climatic variability in Australasian and South American paleoenvironmental records / M. S. McGlone, A. P. Kershaw and Vera Markgraf. 22. Synthesis and future prospects / Henry F. Diaz, Vera Markgraf and Malcolm K. Hughes.

ISBN

0521430429

LCCN

92024682

OCLC

• 26259569
• ocm26259569

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries