Our Affair with El Niño : : How We Transformed an Enchanting Peruvian Current into a Global Climate Hazard / / S. George Philander.
Until 1997, few people had heard of the seasonal current that Peruvians nicknamed El Niño. But when meteorologists linked it to devastating floods in California, severe droughts in Indonesia, and strange weather everywhere, its name became entrenched in the common parlance faster than a typhoon maki...
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Year of Publication: | 2018 |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- PROLOGUE: Assessing Our Affair as It Approaches a Critical Juncture
- Part 1: Who Is El Niño?
- ONE. A Mercurial Character
- TWO. A Fallen Angel?
- THREE. Construct of Ours
- FOUR. Matchmaker
- Part 2: Our Dilemma
- FIVE. Two Incompatible Cultures
- SIX. "Small" Science versus "Big" Science
- Part 3: Common Ground
- SEVEN. The Perspective of a Painter
- EIGHT. The Perspective of a Poet
- NINE. The Perspective of a Musician
- TEN. Marriage of the "Hard" and "Soft" Sciences
- ELEVEN. The Cloud
- Part 4: A Brief History of the Science
- TWELVE. Predicting the Weather
- THIRTEEN. Investigating the Atmospheric Circulation
- FOURTEEN. Exploring the Oceans
- FIFTEEN. Reconciling Divergent Perspectives on El Niño
- SIXTEEN. Taking a Long-Term Geological View
- Part 5: Coping with Hazards
- SEVENTEEN. Famines in India
- EIGHTEEN. Fisheries of Peru
- NINETEEN. Droughts in Zimbabwe
- EPILOGUE: Becoming Custodians of Planet Earth
- NOTES AND REFERENCES
- INDEX