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

Books

Fu, L.L. and A. Cazenave, 2001: Satellite Altimetry and Earth Sciences: A Handbook of Techniques and Applications. London: Academic Press. Web: customerservice.apnet.com

Sayre, A.P., 2000: El Niño and La Niña: Weather in the Headlines. Twenty-First Century Books: a division of www.millbrookpress.com (young adult).

Reports

Climate Prediction Center, 2001: El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO): Diagnostic Discussion. Released the 10th of each month on line at: www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/analysis_monitoring/enso_advisory/

Kirtman, B.P. et al., 2000: Current Status of ENSO Forecast Skill: A Report to the Climate Variability and Predictability (CLIVAR) Numerical Experimentation Group (NEG). Available on line at: grads.iges.org/ellfb/WGSIP/report.htm

Moore, R.W. and T.H. Vonder Haar, 2000: Interannual variations in Northern Hemisphere winter energy transport related to the El Niño-Southern Oscillation Phenomenon. In CIRA Science Report, ISSN 0737-5352-45, 116.

PCMDI (Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison), 2001: The El Niño-Southern Oscillation in Coupled GCMs. Report 61. Available on line at www-pcmdi.llnl.gov/pcmdi/pubs/PCMDIreports.html

Articles

Adeel, Z., and M.H. Glantz, 2001: El Niño of the century: Once burnt, twice shy? Global Environmental Change, 11, 171-174.

An, S.I., B. Wang, 2001: Mechanisms of locking of the El Niño and La Niña mature phases to boreal winter. Journal of Climate, 14(9), 2164-2176.

Ballabrera-Poy, J, A. Busalacchi, and R. Murtugudde, 2001: Application of a Reduced-Order Kalman Filter to initialize a coupled atmosphere-ocean model: Impact on the prediction of El Niño. Journal of Climate, 14(8), 1720-1737.

Bell, J., P.B. Duffy, C. Covey and L. Sloan, 2000: Comparison of tempera-ture variability in observations and sixteen climate model simulations. Geophysical Research Letters, 27, 261-264.

Buizer, J.L., J. Foster, and D. Lund, 2000: Global impacts and regional actions: Preparing for the 1997-98 El Niño. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 81(9), 2121-2139.

Cabanes, C., A. Cazenave, and C. Le Provost, 2001: Sea level change from TOPEX/Poseidon altimetry for 1993-1999 and possible warming of the southern oceans. Geophysical Research Letters, 28(1), 9-12.

Cai, W., P.H. Whetton, and A.B. Pittock, 2001: Fluctuations of the relationship between ENSO and northeast Australian rainfall. Climate Dynamics, 17(5/6), 421-432.

Cerveny, R. and J.A. Shaffer, 2001: The moon and El Niño. Geophysical Research Letters, 28(1), 25-28.

Chang, C.-P, Y. Zhang, and T. Li, 2000: Interanual and interdecadal variation of the East Asian summer monsoon rainfall and tropical SSTs: Part 1. Roles of the subtropical ridge. Journal of Climate, 13, 4310-4325.

Chang, C.-P, Y. Zhang, and T. Li, 2000: Interannual and interdecadal variation of the East Asian summer monsoon rainfall and tropical SSTs: Part 2. Meridional structure of the monsoon. Journal of Climate, 13, 4326-4340.

Chan, J.C.L., 2000: Tropical cyclone activity over the western north Pacific associated with El Niño and La Niña events. Journal of Climate, 13(16), 2960-2972.

Chen, C.-C, B. McCarl, and R. Adams, 2001: Economic implications of potential ENSO frequency and strength shifts. Climatic Change, 49(1/2), 147-159.

Clark, M.P., M. Serreze, and G. McCabe, 2001: Surface water and climate: Historical effects of El Niño and La Niña events on the seasonal evolution of the montane snowpack in the Columbia and Colorado River Basins. Water Resources Research, 37(3), 741-758.

Delcroix, T. et al., 2000: Equatorial waves and warm pool displacements during the 1992-1998 El Niño Southern Oscillation events: Observation and modeling. Journal of Geophysical Research, 105(C11), 26045-26062.

Escribano, R. and P. Hidalgo, 2000: Influence of El Niño and La Niña on the population dynamics of Calanus chilensis in the Humboldt Current ecosystem of northern Chile. ICES Journal of Marine Science: Journal du Conseil, 57(6), 1867-1874.

Fan, Y. et al., 2000: How predictability depends on the nature of uncertainty in initial conditions in a coupled model of ENSO. Journal of Climate, 13(18), 3298-3313.

Farrar, P.D., 2000: Are cosmic rays influencing oceanic cloud coverage – or is it only El Niño? Climatic Change, 47(1/2), 7-15.

Godinez-Dominguez, E. et al., 2000: Changes in the structure of a coastal fish assemblage exploited by a small scale gillnet fishery during an El Niño-La Niña event. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 51(6), 773-787.

Hu, Z.Z. et al., 2001: Impact of global warming on the interannual and interdecadal climate modes in a coupled GCM. Climate Dynamics, 17, 361-374.

Johnson, S.D., D.S. Battisti, and E.S. Sarachik, 2000: Empirically derived Markov models and prediction of tropical Pacific sea surface temperature anoma-lies. Journal of Climate, 13(1), 3-17.

Kogan, F.N., 2000: Satellite-observed sensitivity of world land ecosystems to El Niño/La Niña. Remote Sensing of Environment, 74(3), 445-462.

Krishnamurti, T.N. et al., 2000: Coupled atmosphere-ocean modeling of the El Niño of 1997-98. Journal of Climate, 13(14), 2428-2459.

Landsea, C.W. and J.A.. Knaff, 2000: How much skill was there in forecasting the very strong 1997­-98 El Niño? Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 81(9), 2107-2119.

Li, T., et al., 2001: On the relationship between Indian Ocean sea surface temperature and Asian summer monsoon. Geophysical Research Letters, 28(14), 2843-2846.

Li, T., T.F. Hogan, and C.-P. Chang, 2000: Dynamic and thermodynamic regulation of ocean warming. Journal of Atmospheric Sciences, 20, 3353-3365.

Los, S.O. et al., 2001: Global interannual variations in sea surface temperature and land surface vegetation, air temperature, and precipitation. Journal of Climate, 14(7), 1535-1549.

Mason, S.J. and L. Goddard, 2001: Probabilistic precipitation anomalies associated with ENSO. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 82(4), 619-638.

Meinen, C. and M. McPhaden, 2000: Observations of warm water volume changes in the equatorial Pacific and their relationship to El Niño and La Niña. Journal of Climate, 13(20), 3551-3559.

Nicholls, N., 2000: El Niño/Southern Oscillation: Aftermath of the1997-98 event and prediction of future events. World Meteorological Organization Bulletin, 49(3), 267-270.

Nicholson, S.E., B. Some, and B. Kone, 2000: An analysis of recent rainfall conditions in West Africa, including the rainy seasons of the 1997 El Niño and the 1998 La Niña years. Journal of Climate, 13(14), 2628-2640.

Nowlin, W.D. et al., 2001: Evolution of a sustained ocean observing system. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 82(7), 1369-1376.

Overland, J.E. and J.M. Adams, 2001: On the temporal character and regionality of the Arctic Oscillation. Geophysical Research Letters, 28(14), 2811-2814.

Perigaud, C.M. and C. Cassou, 2000: Importance of oceanic decadal trends and westerly wind bursts for forecasting El Niño. Geophysical Research Letters, 27(3), 389-392.

Picaut, J. et al., 2001: The oceanic zone of convergence on the eastern edge of the Pacific warm pool: A synthesis of results and implications for El Niño-Southern Oscillation and biogeo-chemical phenomena. Journal of Geophysical Research, 106(C2), 2363-2368.

Poveda, G. et al., 2001: Coupling between annual and ENSO timescales in the malaria-climate association in Colombia. Environmental Health Perspectives, 109(5), 489-494.

Pozo-Vasquez, D., M.J. Estban-Parra, F.S. Rodrigo, and Y. Castro-Diez: 2001: A study of NAO variability and its possible nonlinear influences on European surface temperature. Climate Dynamics, 17(9), 701-715.

Schöttle, S. and M. Latif, 2000: Assimilation of TOPEX/Poseidon data improves ENSO hindcast skill. CLIVAR Exchanges, 5(3), 8-10.

Tseng, L. and C. Mechoso, 2001: A quasi-biennial oscillation in the equatorial Atlantic Ocean. Geophysical Research Letters, 28(1), 187-190.

Tucker, W.B. et al., 2001: Evidence for rapid thinning of sea ice in the western Arctic Ocean at the end of the 1980s. Geophysical Research Letters, 28(14), 2851-2854.

Vergani, D.F., Z. Stanganelli, and D. Bilenca, 2001: Weaning mass variation of southern elephant seals at King George Island and its possible relationship with El Niño and La Niña. Antarctic Science, 13(Part 1), 37-40.

Yeh, S.-W. et al., 2001: The characteristic oscillation induced by coupled processes between oceanic vertical modes and atmospheric modes in the tropical Pacific. Geophysical Research Letters, 28(14), 2847-2850.

Yu, J.-Y., W.T. Liu, and C.R. Mechoso, 2000: An SST anomaly dipole in the northern subtropical Pacific and its relationships with ENSO. Geophysical Research Letters, 27(13), 1931-1934.

Zamudio, L., et al., 2001: ENSO and eddies on the southwest coast of Mexico. Geophysical Research Letters, 28(1), 13-16.

Zhou, Y.H., D.W. Zheng, and X.H. Liao, 2001: Wavelet analysis of interannual LOD, AAM, and ENSO: 1997-98 El Niño and 1998-99 La Niña signals. Journal of Goedesy, 75(2), 164-168.