Introduction to Climate Dynamics

This book systematically discusses the theory and dynamics of climate change, especially short-term climate change. There has a lot of publications on climate dynamics since the late 1980s, but none of them reflect the climate dynamics as the essence of the discipline combining diagnostic analysis with dynamics theory. This book strives to combine the statistical and diagnostic analysis of data with kinetic theory and numerical simulation trying to make the reader not only aware of it, but also to understand the underlying reasons. As an introduction to climate dynamics, there still have some problems yet not to be the perfect solutions so far. Fortunately, research on climate dynamics and climate prediction theory has drawn the attention and support from national level and is being carried out in an organized manner. It will be beneficial to the research and development of climate dynamics in China and abroad.

Introduction.- Climate System.- Atmospheric Radiation Process.- Dynamics of Atmospheric Intraseasonal Oscillation.- Persistent Anomalies in Atmospheric Circulation (I)- The Dynamic Mechanism of Blocking Situation.- Persistent Anomalies in Atmospheric Circulation (II)- The Dynamic Mechanism of Teleconnection.- Air-Sea Interaction.- Land-Atmosphere Interaction.- Numerical Simulation of Climate (I)- Atmospheric Circulation Model (GCM).- Numerical Simulation of Climate (II)——Simplified Mode.- Decadal and Interdecadal Climate Change.- Climate Predictability.-  Human Activities and Climate Change.

Prof. Chongyin LI, an academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and a well-known scientist in atmospheric science and climate dynamics, has been engaged in atmospheric science research all along in the Institute of Atmospheric Physics (IAP), CAS. He was the vice chairman of Academic Committee in the IAP/CAS (1988-2013), the chairman of Dynamical Meteorology Committee in the Chinese Meteorology Society (1987-2006), the vice president of the Chinese Meteorology Society (2007-2000), and the chairman of the Chinese Climate Research Committee (2004-2012). He also was the member of ICDM/IAMAS (1991-2002), the member of CLIVAR Scientific Steering Group/WCRP (1997-1999), the member of AAMP/CLVAR (1995-2001), and the member of ICCL (2003-2016).

Prof. LI Chongyin has achieved systematic and innovative achievements in the frontier fields of atmospheric science and climate, such as in tropical meteorology, atmospheric low frequency oscillation and its dynamics, the sea-air interactions (ENSO cycle, IOD, and PIOAM), the typhoon dynamics, interdecadal climate variability, and climate variability.