Advanced Institue on "The Asian Monsoon System: Prediction of Change and Variability"

Reading List

Reading and lecture materials from the institute are available for download here.

Karumuri Ashok

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Xiouhua Fu

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Hariharasubramanian Annamalai

(i) The Asian Monsoon - Book Edited by Bin Wang

(ii) Wang, B., and Q. Ding, 2007: Global Monsoon: Domiant mode of annual variation in the tropics. Dynamics of the Atmosphere and Ocean (revised)

(iii) Annamalai et al. 1999: The mean evolution and variability of the Asian summer monsoon: Comparision of ECMWF and NCEP-NCAR reanalyses. Mon. Wea. Rev., 127, 1157-1186.

(iv) M. Stowasser and H. Annamalai, 2007: Response of the Asian summer monsoon to global warming: Mean and Synoptic systems. J. Climate (submitted)

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In-Sik Kang

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Akio Kitoh

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R.H. Kripalani

Topic: Inter-decadal Variation and Historical Record
Speaker: 3 lectures on 8 January 2008 by R.H. Kripalani, IITM, India

Pre-Session Reading Material

Kripalani RH and A Kulkarni 1997: Rainfall variability over southeast Asia-connections with Indian Monsoon and ENSO extremes-new perspectives. International Journal of Climatology 17: 1155-1168.
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Kripalani RH and A Kulkarni 1999: Climatology and variability of historical Soviet snow depth data: Some new perspectives in Snow-Indian Monsoon tele-connections. Climate Dynamics 15: 475-489.
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Kripalani RH and A Kulkarni 2001: monsoon rainfall variations and tele-connections over South and East Asia. International Journal of Climatology 21: 603-616.
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Kripalani RH and P Kumar 2004: Northeast monsoon variability over south peninsular India vis-à-vis the Indian Ocean Dipole Mode. International Journal of Climatology 24: 1267-1282.
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Kripalani RH, JH Oh, A Kulkarni, SS Sabade and HS Chaudhari 2007: South Asian summer monsoon precipitation variability: Coupled climate model simulations and projections under IPCC AR4. Theoretical and Applied Climatology 90: 133-159.
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June-Yi Lee

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Tim Li

Li, T., P. Liu, X. Fu, B. Wang, and G. A. Meehl, 2006: Tempo-Spatial Structures and Mechanisms of the Tropospheric Biennial Oscillation in the Indo-Pacific Warm Ocean Regions. J. Climate, Vol. 19, No. 13, pages 3070–3087.

Wang, B. and T. Li, 2004: East Asian monsoon and ENSO interaction, East Asian Monsoon, World Scientific Publishing Company, Book Chapter, 177-212.

Wang, B. R. Wu, and T. Li, 2003: Atmosphere-warm ocean interaction and its impact on Asian-Australian monsoon variation. J. Climate, 16, 1195-1211.

Li, T., and Y. Zhang, 2002: Processes that determine the quasi-biennial and lower-frequency variability of the South Asian monsoon. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 80, 1149-1163.

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Julian P McCreary

Two lectures: A) Indian Ocean dynamics and B) impacts of Indian-Ocean SST on climate.

Readings for Part A) are:

1) McCreary, J.P., P.K. Kundu, and R. Molinari, 1993: A numerical investigation of dynamics, thermodynamics and mixed-layer processes in the Indian Ocean. Prog. Oceanogr., 31, 181-244. (link to MKM93.pdf)

2) Schott, F., and J.P. McCreary, 2001: The monsoon circulation of the Indian Ocean. Prog. Oceanogr., 51, 1-123. (link to SMc01.pdf)

My talk for Part A is (link to IOdyamics.ppt).

My lecture for Part B) will be taken from the preprint:

3) Schott, F., S.-P. Xie, and J.P. McCreary, 2008: Indian Ocean circulation and climate variability. (Submitted.) (link to IOClimate.pdf)"

James T. Potemra

I would like to go through some examples of accessing/plotting data on-line, so I've set-up a web page with some tutorials on accessing our data center. It might be helpful for the students to explore both our data center page and this tutorial page before the classes start.

APDRC site: http://apdrc.soest.hawaii.edu
Tutorial: http://apdrc.soest.hawaii.edu/w_tutorials/index.html

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Duane Waliser

Madden, R. A., and P. R. Julian (1994), Observations of the 40-50-Day Tropical Oscillation - A Review, Monthly Weather Review, 122, 814-837.
http://ams.allenpress.com/perlserv/?request=get-abstract&doi=10.1175%2F1520-0493(1994)122%3C0814%3AOOTDTO%3E2.0.CO%3B2&ct=1
Lau, W. K. M., and D. E. Waliser (Eds.) (2005), Intraseasonal Variability of the Atmosphere-Ocean Climate System, 474 pp., Springer, Heidelberg, Germany.
Mainly one or more of the following chapters 1,2,3.5,10,11,12
Zhang, C. (2005), The Madden Julian Oscillation, Reviews of Geophysics, 43, RG2003, doi:10.1029/2004RG000158.
http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2005/2004RG000158.shtml
Waliser, D. E. (2006), Intraseasonal Variability, in The Asian Monsoon, edited by B. Wang, 844 pp, Springer, Heidelberg, Germany. (This volume will be provided at the institute)

WEBSITES

U.S. CLIVAR MJO Working Group
http://www.usclivar.org/Organization/MJO_WG.html
VERY USEFUL WEB CAST by Roland Madden
MJO life cycle webcast--http://www.meted.ucar.edu/climate/mjo/