Books, reports, and articles of interest to the ENSO community.

Books

Changnon, S.A. (ed.), 2000: El Nino 1997-1998: The Climate Event of the Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press. www.oup.com

Diaz, H. (ed.), 2000: El Niño and the Southern Oscillation: Multiscale Variability and Global and Regional Impacts. New York: Cambridge University Press. uk.cambridge.org/

Elsner, J.B. and A.B. Kara, 1999: Hurricanes of the North Atlantic. New York: Oxford University Press. www.oup.com

Fagan, B.M., 1999: Floods, Famines and Emperors: El Niño and the Fate of Civilizations. New York: Basic Books.

Garstang, M., 1999: Observations of Surface-to-Atmosphere Interactions in the Tropics. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. www.oup-usa.org

Glantz, M.H., 2000: Currents of Change: El Niño and La Niña Impacts on Climate and Society. Second edition. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. uk.cambridge.org

Grove, R., and J. Chappell (eds.), 2000: El Niño: History and Crisis: Studies from the Asia-Pacific Region. Knapwell, UK: White Horse Press. www.erica.demon.co.uk

Guhardja, E., M. Fatawi, M. Sutisna, T. Mori, and S. Ohta (eds.), 2000: Rainforest Ecosystems of East Kalimantan: El Niño, Drought, Fire, and Human Impacts. New York: Springer Life Sciences. www.springer-ny.com

Halpern, D. (ed.), 2000: Satellites, Oceanography, and Society. Elsevier Oceanography Series 63. Oxford, UK: Elsevier Science Ltd. www.elsevier.com

Magaña, V.O. (ed.), 1999: Los Impactos de El Niño en Mexico. Mexico: Centro de Ciencias de la Atmosfera, UNAM.

Navarro, A. (ed.), 1999: Beyond El Niño: Decadal and Interdecadal Climate Variability. New York: Springer Geosciences. www.springer-ny.com

Sherman, K.M., 1999: Perceptions of El Nino: A Case Study of the Effects of Media on Public Perception. Masters Thesis, Dept. of Geosciences, Mississippi State University, Mississippi. May.

Seibert, P., 1999: Discovering El Niño: How Fable and Fact Together Help Explain the Weather. Brookfield, CT: Millbrook Press. www.millbrookpress.com

Reports

Adams, R.M. (ed.), 1999: The Economic Consequences of ENSO Events: The 1997-98 El Niño and the 1998-99 La Niña. Faculty Paper Series 99-2. College Station, TX: Dept. of Agricultural Economics, Texas A & M University.

American Meteorological Society, 1999: Hayes Symposium on Seasonal-to-Interannual Climate Variability: The 1997/98 ENSO Cycle. Boston, MA: American Meteorological Society. www.ametsoc.org/ams/

Broad, K., 1999: Climate, Culture, and Values: The 1997-98 El Niño and Peruvian Fisheries. PhD Thesis, Columbia University, New York.

Brown, K.M., 1999: The Effect of the 1997-98 El Niño Winter on Beach Morphology along the Santa Cruz County Coast. Masters Thesis. Santa Cruz, CA: University of California.

Dingler, J.R., 2000: El Niño Storms Erode Beaches on Monterey Bay, California. USGS Fact Sheet. Menlo Park, CA: US Geological Survey. On line: geopubs.wr.usgs.gov/fact-sheet/fs026-00/

Freeland, H., J. Peterson, W. Thornton, and A. Tyler (eds.), 1999: Proceedings of the 1998 Science Board Symposium on the Impacts of the 1997/98 El Niño Event on the North Pacific Ocean and Its Marginal Seas. PICES Scientific Report No. 10 1198-273X. Sidney, B.C., Canada: North Pacific Marine Science Organization.

Hamnett, M.P., 2000: Impact of ENSO Events on Tuna Fisheries in the US-Affiliated Pacific Islands. 00-330 SOEST Series. Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaii, Joint Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research.

Kovats, R.S., M.J. Bouma, and A. Haines, 1999: El Nino and Health. WHO/SDE/PHE/99.4. Task Force on Climate and Health, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.

Leetmaa, A., 1999: El Niño, La Niña and Hurricanes: Was 1999 a preview of the Future? An extended abstract from a seminar for the USGCRP, Dec. 16, 1999 in Washington, DC.

National Research Council, 2000: Reconciling Observations of Global Temperature Change. National Academy Press, 2101 Constitution Ave. NW, Box 285, Washington, DC 20055. www.nap.edu

Salstein, D.A., B. Kolaczek, and D. Gambis (eds.), 1999: The Impact of El Niño and Other Low-Frequency Signals on Earth Rotation and Global Earth System Parameters. IERS Tech. Note 26, Paris, France: Central Bureau of IERS, Observatoire de Paris.

Vos, R., 1999: Economic and Social Effects of El Niño in Ecuador, 1997-98. Washington, DC: Inter-American Development Bank Technical Paper Series POV-107. www.iadb.org

World Meteorological Organization, 1999: The 1997-1998 El Niño Event: A Scientific and Technical Retrospective. Geneva, Switzerland: WMO. www.wmo.ch

Articles

Berri, G.J. and E.A. Flamenco, 1999: Seasonal volume forecast of the Diamante River, Argentina, based on El Niño observations and predictions. Water Resources Research, 35(12), 3803-3810.

Cayan, D.R., K.T. Redmond and L.G. Riddle, 2000: ENSO and hydrologic extremes in the western United States. Journal of Climate, 12(9), 2881-2893.

Changnon, D., T. Creech, N. Narsili, W. Murrell, and M. Saxinger, 2000: Interactions with a weather-sensitive decision maker: A case study incorporating ENSO information into a strategy for purchasing natural gas. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 80(6), 1117-1125.

Chung, C. and S. Nigam, 2000: Asian summer monsoon: ENSO feedback on the Cane-Zebiak model of ENSO. Journal of Climate, 12(9), 2787-2807.

del Prieto, M., R. Herrera, and P. Dussel, 1999: Historical evidences of streamflow fluctuations in the Mendoza River, Argentina, and their relationship with ENSO. The Holocene, 9(4), 473-481.

Eltahir, E. and G. Wang, 1999: Nilometers, El Niño, and climate variability. Geophysical Research Letters, 26(4), 489-492.

Enfield, D.B. and A.M. Mestas-Nunez, 1999: Multiscale variabilities in global sea-surface temperatures and their relationships with tropospheric climate patterns. Journal of Climate, 12(9), 2719-2733.

Garreaud, R.D. and D.S. Battisti, 1999: Interannual (ENSO) and interdecadal (ENSO-like) variability in the Southern Hemisphere tropospheric circulation. Journal of Climate, 12(7), 2113-2123.

Kane, R.P., 1999: Rainfall extremes in some selected parts of Central and South America: ENSO and other relationships reexamined. International Journal of Climatology, 19(4), 423-455.

Kleeman, R., and A.M. Moore, 1999: A new method for determining the reliability of dynamical ENSO predictions. Monthly Weather Review, 127(5), 694-705.

Mantua, N.J., S.R. Hare, Y. Zhang, J.M. Wlalace, and R.C. Francis, 1997: A Pacific interdecadal climate oscillation with impacts on salmon production. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 78(6), 1069-1079.

Matthews, A.J. and G.N. Kiladis, 1999: Interactions between ENSO, transient circulation, and tropical convection over the Pacific. Journal of Climate, 12(10), 3062-3086.

Phillips, J., B. Rajagopalan, M. Cane, and C. Rosenzweig, 1999: The role of ENSO in determining climate and maize yield variability in the U.S. cornbelt. International Journal of Climatology, 19(8), 877-888.

Podesta, G.P., C.D. Messina, M.O. Grondona, and G.O. Magrin, 1999: Associations between grain crop yields in central-eastern Argentina and El Niño-Southern Oscillation. Journal of Applied Meteorology, 38, 1488-1498.

Power, S., T. Casey, C. Folland, A. Colman, and V. Mehta, 1999: Inter-decadal modulation of the impact of ENSO on Australia. Climate Dynamics, 15(5), 319-324.

Trenberth, K.E., 1999: The extreme weather events of 1997 and 1998. Consequences, 5(1), 3-15. On line at www.gcrio.org/CONSEQUENCES/vol5no1/extreme.html

Wang, C., R.H. Weisberg, and J.I. Virmani, 1999: Western Pacific interannual variability associated with the El Niño-Southern Oscillation. Journal of Geophysical Research, 104(C3), 5131-5149.

Wilkinson, C., O. Linden, H. Cesar, G. Hodgson, J. Rubens, and A.E. Strong, 1999: Ecological and socioeconomic impacts of 1998 coral mortality in the Indian Ocean: An ENSO impact and a warning of future change? Ambio, 28(2), 188-196.

Wolter, K., R.M. Dole, and C.A. Smith, 2000: Short-term climate extremes over the continental United States and ENSO. Part I: Seasonal temperatures. Journal of Climate, 12(11), 3255-3272.

Wu, A. and Y. Ni, 2000: A hybrid coupled ocean-atmosphere model and ENSO prediction study. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 16(3), 405-418.

Zhang, Y., J.M. Wallace and D.S. Battisti, 1997: ENSO-like interdecadal variability, 1900-93. Journal of Climate, 10(5), 1004-1020.