Climate extremes : patterns and mechanisms / S.-Y. Simon Wang, Jin-Ho Yoon, Christopher C. Funk, Robert R. Gillies, editor.

Forcings of Climate Extremes. The Changing El Niño-Southern Oscillation and Associated Climate Extremes / Jin-Yi Yu, Xin Wang, Song Yang, Houk Paek, Mengyan Chen -- Weather Extremes Linked to Interaction of the Arctic and Midlatitudes / Timo Vihma -- Impact of Aerosols on Regional Changes in Climate Extremes / Jana Sillmann, Jinho Yoon -- Weakened Flow, Persistent Circulation, and Prolonged Weather Extremes in Boreal Summer / Dim Coumou, Kai Kornhuber, Jascha Lehmann, Vladimir Petoukhov -- Land Processes as the Forcing of Extremes / Min-Hui Lo, Tzu-Hsien Kuo, Hao-Wei Wey, Chia-Wei Lan, Jen-Ping Chen -- Processes of Climate Extremes. Timing of Anthropogenic Emergence in Climate Extremes / Andrew D King, Markus G Donat, Ed Hawkins, David J Karoly -- Recent Increases in Extreme Temperature Occurrence over Land / Scott J Weaver, Arun Kumar, Mingyue Chen -- Why Future Shifts in Tropical Precipitation Will Likely Be Small / Aaron Donohoe, Aiko Voigt -- Weather-Climate Interactions and MJO Influences / Paul E Roundy, Naoko Sakaeda, Kyle MacRitchie, Lawrence Gloeckler -- Recent Climate Extremes Associated with the West Pacific Warming Mode / Chris Funk, Andrew Hoell -- Connections Between Heat Waves and Circumglobal Teleconnection Patterns in the Northern Hemisphere Summer / Haiyan Teng, Grant Branstator -- Regional Climate Extremes. North American Drought and Links to Northern Eurasia / Hailan Wang, Siegfried D Schubert, Randal D Koster -- The California Drought / Shih-Yu (Simon) Wang, Jinho Yoon, Robert R Gillies, Huang-Hsiung Hsu -- Observed Trends in US Tornado Frequency / Adam J Clark -- Mechanisms Explaining Recent Changes in Australian Climate Extremes / Sophie C Lewis, David J Karoly, Andrew D King, Sarah E Perkins, Markus G Donat -- Unraveling East Africa's Climate Paradox / Bradfield Lyon, Nicolas Vigaud -- A Physical Model for Extreme Drought over Southwest Asia / Andrew Hoell, Chris Funk, Mathew Barlow, Forest Cannon -- Prediction of Climate Extremes. Extratropical Precursors of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation / Kathy V Pegion, Christopher Selman -- North Atlantic Seasonal Hurricane Prediction / Philip J Klotzbach, Mark A Saunders, Gerald D Bell, Eric S Blake -- Predicting Subseasonal Precipitation Variations Based on the Madden-Julian Oscillation / Charles Jones -- Prediction of Short-Term Climate Extremes with a Multimodel Ensemble / Emily J Becker -- Toward Predicting US Tornadoes in the Late 21st Century / Adam J Clark.

Includes index.

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