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

Books

Caviedes, C.N., 2001: El Niño in History: Storming Through the Ages. To order, contact University Press of Florida, 15 Northwest 15th Street, Gainesville, FL 32611-2079 USA; tel: (in US) 1-800-226-3822; tel: (outside US) 1-904-277-3350; fax: 1-904-261-1896; Web: www.upf.com

McKinnell, S.M., R.D. Brodeur, K. Hanawa, A.B. Hollowed, J.J. Polovian, and C.I. Ahang, 2001: Pacific Climate Variability and Marine Ecosystem Impacts. Special Issue of Progress in Oceanography, 49(1-4). 639 pp.

WMO, 2000: The 1997-98 El Niño Event in Brief. Contact WMO (World Meteorological Organization), Information and Public Affairs Office, 7 bis, Avenue de la Paix, PO Box 2300, CH-1211 Geneva 2, Switzerland; Web: www.wmo.ch

Reports

CLIVAR (Climate Variability and Predictability), 2001: International CLIVAR Pacific Implementation Workshop, held in Honolulu, Hawaii, 5-8 February 2001. Report on line at www.clivar.org/organization/pacific/activities/workshop_2001/pac_wkshop_rpt.pdf

Overland, J.E., M. Wang, and N.A. Bond, 2001: The Arctic Oscillation as the Driver of Spring Warming. Proceedings of the Sixth Conference on Polar Meteorology and Oceanography and 11th Conference on the Interaction of the Sea and Atmosphere, 14-18 May 2001, San Diego, CA, 81-84. Contact Pacific Marine Environmental Lab, NOAA R/PMEL, 7600 Sand Point Way NE, Seattle, WA 98115-6349. Available on line at www.pmel.noaa.gov/pubs/

Vos, R., M. Velasco, and E. de Labastida, 1999: Economic and Social Effects of El Niño in Ecuador, 1997-1998. Sustainable Development Dept. Technical Paper No. POV-107. Poverty & Inequality Advisory Unit, Mail Stop E-0421, Inter-American Development Bank, 1300 New York Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20577 USA; email: povunit@iadb.org; Website: http://www.iadb.org/sds/pov/index_pov_e.htm

World Climate Research Programme (WCRP), 2001: 4th Session of the CLIVAR VAMOS Panel, held in Montevideo, Uruguay, 26-30 March 2001, WCRP Informal Report No. x/ 2001, ICPO Publication Series 49. Available on line at: www.clivar.org

WMO, 2001: Summary for Policymakers to Climate Change 2001: Synthesis Report of the IPCC Third Assessment Report. Contact IPCC Secretariat, c/o WMO, 7 bis, Avenue de la Paix, PO Box 2300, CH-1211 Geneva 2, Switzerland; tel: 41-22-730-8208; fax: 41-22-730-8025. Also available on line at: www.ipcc.ch/pub/SYR-text.pdf

Articles

An, S-I. and F.-F. Jin, 2001: Collective role of thermocline and zonal advective feedbacks in the ENSO mode. Journal of Climate, 14(16), 3421-3432.

Barnett, T.P., D.W. Pierce, and R. Schnur, 2001: Detection of anthropogenic climate change in the world's oceans. Science, 292, 270-274.

Behrenfeld, M., et al., 2001: Biospheric primary production during an ENSO transition. Science, 291, 2594-2597.

Cess, R.D., M. Zhang, B.A. Wielicki, D.F. Yuoung, X. Zhou, and Y. Nikitenko, 2001: The influence of the 1998 El Niño upon cloud-radiative forcing over the Pacific Warm Pool. Journal of Climate, 14(9), 2129-2137.

Cook, K.H., 2001: A southern hemisphere wave response to ENSO with implications for Southern Africa precipitation. Journal of Atmospheric Sciences, 58(15), 2146-2162.

Curtis, S., R. Adler, G. Huffman, E. Nelkin, and D. Bolvin, 2001: Evolution of tropical and extratropical precipitation anomalies during the 1997-1999 ENSO cycle. International Journal of Climatology, 21, 961-971.

Drexler, J.Z. and K.C. Ewel, 2001: Effect of the 1997-1998 ENSO-related drought on hydrology and salinity in a Micronesian wetland complex. Estuaries, 24(3), 347-356.

Evans, M.N., et al., 2001: Support for tropically driven Pacific decadal variability based on paleoproxy evidence. Geophysical Research Letters, 28(19), 3689-3692.

Gallego, D., et al., 2001: Ocean sciences: An ENSO signal in the North Atlantic subtropical area. Geophysical Research Letters, 28(15), 2939-2942.

Gent, P.R., 2001: Will the North Atlantic Ocean thermohaline circulation weaken during the 21st century? Geophysical Research Letters, 28, 1023-1026.

Goddard, L., S.J. Mason, S.E. Zebiak, C.F. Ropelewski, R. Basher, and M.A. Cane, 2001: Current approaches to seasonal-to-interannual climate predictions. International Journal of Climatology, 21(9): 1111-1152.

Harrison, D.E. and G.A. Vecchi, 2001: January 1999 Indian Ocean cooling event. Geophysical Research Letters, 28(19), 3717-3720.

Hatsushika, H. and K. Yamazaki, 2001: Atmospheric science: Interannual variations of temperature and vertical motion at the tropical tropopause associated with ENSO. Geophysical Research Letters, 28(15), 2891-2894.

Hong, C.-H., K.-D. Cho, and H.-J. Kim, 2001: The relationship between ENSO events and sea surface temperature in the East (Japan) Sea. Progress in Oceanography, 49(1), 21-40.

Kessler, W.S., 2001: EOF representations of the Madden-Julian Oscillation and its connection with ENSO. Journal of Climate, 14(13), 3055-3063.

Kug, J.-S., I.-S. Kang, and S.E. Zebiak, 2001: The impacts of the model assimilated wind stress data in the initialization of an intermediate ocean and the ENSO predictability. Geophysical Research Letters, 28(19), 3713-3716.

Lau, K.-M. and H.T. Wu, 2001: Principal modes of rainfall-SST variability of the Asian summer monsoon: A reassessment of the monsoon-ENSO relationship. Journal of Climate, 14(13), 2880-2895.

Lehodey, P., 2001: The pelagic ecosystem of the tropical Pacific Ocean: Dynamic spatial modelling and biological consequences of ENSO. Progress in Oceanography, 49(1), 439-468.

Marcus, S.L., J.O. Dickey, and O. de Viron, 2001: Links between intraseasonal (extended MJO) and ENSO timescales: Insights via geodetic and atmospheric analysis. Geophysical Research Letters, 28(18), 3465-3468.

Marshall, J.F. and M.T. McCulloch, 2001: Evidence of El Niño and the Indian Ocean dipole from Sr/Ca derived SSTs for modern corals at Christmas Island, eastern Indian Ocean. Geophysical Research Letters, 28(18), 3453-3456.

Mesias, J.M., R.P. Matano, and P.T. Strub, 2001: A numerical study of the upwelling circulation off central Chile. Journal of Geophysical Research – Oceans, 106(C9), 19,611-19,624.

Moore, G.W.K., G. Holdsworth, and K. Alverson, 2001: Ocean sciences and climate: Extra-tropical response to ENSO as expressed in an ice core from the Saint Elias Mountain Range. Geophysical Research Letters, 28(18), 3457-3460.

Oba, G., E. Post, and N.C. Stenseth, 2001: Sub-Saharan desertification and productivity are linked to hemispheric climate variability. Global Change Biology, 7(3), 241-246.

Pascual, M. X. Rodo, S. Ellner, R. Coldwell, and M. Bouma, 2000: Cholera dynamics in El Niño-Southern Oscillation. Science, 289, 1766-1769.

Picaut, J. et al., 2001: The oceanic zone of convergence on the eastern edge of the Pacific warm pool: A syntheses of results and implications for El Niņo-Southern Oscillation and biogeochemical phenomena. Journal of Geophysical Research, 106(C2), 2363-2386.

Picaut, J. and A.J. Busalacchi, 2000: Tropical ocean variability. In: Satellite Altimetry and Earth Sciences: A Handbook of Techniques and Applications, L.L. Fu and A. Cazenave (Eds.), 217-236. London: Academic Press. customerservice.apnet.com

Polonsky, A.B., 2001: Are we seeing human-induced warming of the deep layers in the North Subtropical Atlantic? CLIVAR Exchanges, 6(19), 17-19.

Poveda, G., 2001: Seasonality in ENSO-related precipitation, river discharges, soil moisture, & vegetation index in Colombia. Water Resources Research, 37(8), 2169-2178.

Pozo-Vasquez et al., 2001: The association between ENSO and winter atmospheric circulation and temperature in the North Atlantic region. Journal of Climate, 14(16), 3408-3420.

Roy, C. and C. Reason, 2001: ENSO-related modulation of coastal upwelling in the eastern Atlantic. Progress in Oceanography, 49(1), 245-256.

Singh, O.P., 2001: Multivariate ENSO index and Indian monsoon rainfall: relationship on monthly and subdivisional scales. Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics, 78(1), 1-10.

Stolzenburg, W., 2001: Nature feels the heat. On-line Nature Conservancy newsletter, September­-October. nature.org/aboutus/magazine/2001/sepoct/work/art4737.html

Timmermann, A., H.U. Voss, and R. Pasmanter, 2001: Empirical dynamical system modeling of ENSO using nonlinear inverse techniques. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 31(6), 1579-15798.

Venegas, S.A., M.R. Drinkwater, and G. Shaffer, 2001: Coupled oscillations in Antarctic sea ice and atmosphere in the South Pacific sector. Geophysical Research Letters, 28(17), 3301-3304.

Wang, D. and Z. Liu, 2000: The pathway of the interdecadal variability in the Pacific Ocean. Chinese Science Bulletin, 45, 1555-1561.

Vialard, J. et al., 2001: A model study of oceanic mechanisms affecting equatorial Pacific sea surface temperature during the 1997-98 El Niño. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 31(7), 1649-1675.

Whitaker, D.W., S.A. Wasimi, and S. Islam, 2001: The El Niño Southern Oscillation and long-range forecasting of flows in the Ganges. International Journal of Climatology, 21(3), 77-87.

Yves, R., Y, Richard, N. Fauchereau, I. Poccard, M. Roualt, and S. Trzaska, 2001: 20th century droughts in southern Africa: Spatial and temporal variability, teleconnections with oceanic and atmospheric conditions. International Journal of Climatology, 21(7), 873-885.