Our Affair with El Nino: How We Transformed an Enchanting Peruvian Current Into a Global Climate HazardPrinceton University Press, 7 may 2006 - 288 páginas Until 1997, few people had heard of the seasonal current that Peruvians nicknamed El Niño. But when meteorologists linked it to devastating floods in California, severe droughts in Indonesia, and strange weather everywhere, its name became entrenched in the common parlance faster than a typhoon making landfall. Bumper stickers appeared bearing the phrase "Don't blame me; blame El Niño." Stockbrokers muttered "El Niño" when the market became erratic. |
Índice
Assessing Our Affair as It Approaches a Critical Juncture | 1 |
WHO IS EL NINO | 9 |
A Mercurial Character | 11 |
A Fallen Angel? | 28 |
A Construct of Ours | 34 |
A Matchmaker | 40 |
OUR DILEMMA | 63 |
Two Incompatible Cultures | 65 |
A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE SCIENCE | 159 |
Predicting the Weather | 161 |
Investigating the Atmospheric Circulation | 177 |
Exploring the Oceans | 189 |
Reconciling Divergent Perspectives on El Nino | 213 |
Taking a LongTerm Geological View | 227 |
COPING WITH HAZARDS | 235 |
Famines in India | 237 |
Small Science versus Big Science | 81 |
COMMON GROUND | 91 |
The Perspective of a Painter | 93 |
The Perspective of a Poet | 118 |
The Perspective of a Musician | 129 |
A Marriage of the Hard and Soft Sciences | 139 |
The Cloud | 151 |
Fisheries of Peru | 240 |
Droughts in Zimbabwe | 244 |
Becoming Custodians of Planet Earth | 251 |
NOTES AND REFERENCES | 259 |
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Otras ediciones - Ver todo
Our Affair with El Niño: How We Transformed an Enchanting Peruvian Current ... S. George Philander Vista previa restringida - 2004 |
Our Affair with El Niño: How We Transformed an Enchanting Peruvian Current ... S. George Philander Vista previa restringida - 2018 |
Our Affair with El Nino: How We Transformed an Enchanting Peruvian Current ... S. George Philander Vista previa restringida - 2006 |
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