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ISBN 10: 1466554525 

ISBN 13: 9781466554528

Author: Vikram M. Mehta

Natural Decadal Climate Variability: Societal Impacts is an important work for understanding the natural decadal climate variability (DCV), a phenomenon which has made long lasting impacts on civilizations, especially on water availability and agriculture. This book comprehensively covers multiyear to decadal variations in instrument measured precipitation and temperature, water availability and river flows, crop production, agricultural irrigation, inland water-borne transportation, hydroelectricity generation, and fish and crustacean captures since the 1960s. A longer term perspective is provided with the use of multi-century data on dry and wet epochs based on tree ring information, and corroborating evidence from other literature. This valuable work will benefit climate scientists, meteorologists, hydrologists, agronomists, water transportation planners, resource economists, policymakers, professors, and graduate students and anyone else who has an interest in learning how natural climate phenomena has influenced societies for at least the past 1000 years.

Table of contents:

Chapter 1 Prologue
1.1 Water
1.2 Food
1.3 Water-Borne Transportation of Cargo and People
1.4 Natural Climate Variability
1.5 Caveats
1.6 Plan of the Book

Chapter 2 Introduction to Decadal Climate Variability Phenomena
2.1 Introduction
2.2 The Annual Climate Cycle
2.3 A Brief History of Decadal Climate Variability Research
2.4 The Pacific Decadal Oscillation–The Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation
2.5 The Tropical Atlantic SST Gradient Variability
2.6 The West Pacific Warm Pool Variability
2.7 Decadal Variability of ENSO
2.8 Summary

Chapter 3 Ancient Observers Riding Decadal Hydrologic Cycles
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Categories of Dryness and Wetness
3.3 Trees as Climate Observers
3.4 North America
3.5 Europe and North Africa
3.6 Monsoon Asia
3.7 Global-Scale Decadal Hydrologic Cycles
3.8 Summary and Conclusions

Chapter 4 Modern Observers Riding Decadal Hydrologic Cycles
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Review of Multidecadal Hydrologic Cycles
4.3 Decadal Climate Variability Phenomena, Precipitation, and Winds
 4.3.1 Correlation Analysis
  4.3.1.1 The Pacific Decadal Oscillation, Precipitation, and Low-Level Winds
  4.3.1.2 The Tropical Atlantic SST Gradient Variability, Precipitation, and Low-Level Winds
  4.3.1.3 The West Pacific Warm Pool SST Variability, Precipitation, and Low-Level Winds
  4.3.1.4 The Niño3.4 SST Variability, Precipitation, and Low-Level Winds
 4.3.2 Modulation of the Annual Precipitation Cycle
4.4 Decadal Climate Variability Phenomena and the Palmer Drought Severity Index
 4.4.1 Correlation Analysis
 4.4.2 Empirical Orthogonal Function–Principal Component Analysis
 4.4.3 Composite Analysis
 4.4.4 Synthesis
4.5 Decadal Climate Variability Phenomena and Individual Hydrologic Epochs
 4.5.1 The United States of America
 4.5.2 North Brazil
 4.5.3 Western Europe
 4.5.4 East Africa
 4.5.5 West Africa
 4.5.6 Monsoon Asia
 4.5.7 The Middle East
4.6 Summary and Conclusions

Chapter 5 River Flow and Its Impacts
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Review of Previous Research
5.3 Worldwide River Flow Variability
 5.3.1 Correlation Analysis
  5.3.1.1 The Pacific Decadal Oscillation and River Flow
  5.3.1.2 The Tropical Atlantic SST Gradient Variability and River Flow
  5.3.1.3 The West Pacific Warm Pool SST Variability and River Flow
  5.3.1.4 The Niño3.4 SST Variability and River Flow
 5.3.2 Empirical Orthogonal Function–Principal Component Analysis
 5.3.3 Composite Analysis
 5.3.4 Synthesis
5.4 Impacts on Water-Borne Transportation
 5.4.1 Introduction
 5.4.2 Major Waterways and Their Importance
 5.4.3 Water-Borne Transportation in the United States
  5.4.3.1 High-Flow Epochs
  5.4.3.2 Low-Flow Epochs
 5.4.4 Water-Borne Transportation in Other Countries
5.5 Impacts on Hydroelectricity Generation
 5.5.1 Introduction
 5.5.2 Hydroelectricity Generation in the United States
5.6 Summary and Conclusions

Chapter 6 Land’s Bounty
6.1 Introduction
6.2 A Brief Introduction to Climate-Related Stresses on Agriculture
 6.2.1 Weather and Climate
 6.2.2 Irrigation Water for Agriculture
 6.2.3 Pests and Pathogens
6.3 Climate Variability Impacts on Agriculture
 6.3.1 Review of Past Research
 6.3.2 Empirical Analyses of Decadal Variability in Crop Production
  6.3.2.1 The United States
  6.3.2.2 Brazil
  6.3.2.3 France
  6.3.2.4 Burkina Faso
  6.3.2.5 Nigeria
  6.3.2.6 Ethiopia
  6.3.2.7 Syria
  6.3.2.8 China
  6.3.2.9 India
  6.3.2.10 Australia
6.4 Irrigation
 6.4.1 Decadal Climate Variability and Surface and Groundwater Irrigation: Montana and Nebraska in the Missouri River Basin
 6.4.2 Decadal Climate Variability and Irrigation Water Withdrawal in the United States
 6.4.3 Possible Impacts of Decadal Climate Variability on Worldwide Irrigation Water Withdrawal
6.5 Summary and Conclusions

Chapter 7 Oceans’ Bounty
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Winds, Ocean Currents and Temperatures, and Ocean Biology
 7.2.1 Wind-Driven Ocean Circulations
 7.2.2 Primary Production and Food Web in the Oceans
7.3 Review of Previous Research
 7.3.1 The Pacific Ocean
 7.3.2 The Atlantic Ocean
 7.3.3 Synchrony between Captures in the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans
7.4 Empirical Analyses of Decadal Variability in Fish and Crustacean Captures
 7.4.1 Pacific Ocean Capture Variability
 7.4.2 Atlantic Ocean Capture Variability
 7.4.3 Indian Ocean Capture Variability
 7.4.4 Global Capture Variability
7.5 Summary and Conclusions

Chapter 8 Epilogue
8.1 Why This Journey
8.2 The Story So Far
8.3 Importance, Usefulness, Economic Value, and Potential Barriers
 8.3.1 Importance
 8.3.2 Usefulness
  8.3.2.1 River Flows, Reservoirs, Inland Water-Borne Transportation, and Electricity Generation
  8.3.2.2 Urban Water Systems
  8.3.2.3 Agricultural Production
 8.3.3 Economic Value
 8.3.4 Potential Barriers
8.4 A Path Forward
 8.4.1 Partnerships with Stakeholders
 8.4.2 Science of Decadal Climate Variability
 8.4.3 Science of Societal Impacts of Decadal Climate Variability
 8.4.4 Decadal Climate and Impacts Prediction
 8.4.5 Observed Data
8.5 Thus Endeth This Story?

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