Chapter 14

Climate Phenomena and their Relevance for Future Regional Climate Change

 

Coordinating Lead Authors

Jens Hesselbjerg Christensen

Danish Meteorological Institute

Denmark

Krishna Kumar Kanikicharla

Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology

India

Lead Authors

Edvin Aldrian

Agency for Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics

Indonesia

Soon-Il An

Yonsei University

Republic of Korea

Iracema Fonseca Albuquerque Cavalcanti

National Institute for Space Research

Brazil

Manuel de Castro

University of Castilla-La Mancha

Spain

Wenjie Dong

Beijing Normal University

China

Prashant Goswami

CSIR Centre for Mathematical Modelling and Computer Simulation

India

Alex Hall

University of California Los Angeles

USA

Joseph Katongo Kanyanga

Zambia Meteorological Department

Zambia

Akio Kitoh

University of Tsukuba

Japan

James Kossin

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

USA

Ngar-Cheung Lau

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

USA

James Renwick

Victoria University of Wellington

New Zealand

David B. Stephenson

University of Exeter

UK

Shang-Ping Xie

Scripps Institution of Oceanography

USA

Tianjun Zhou

Chinese Academy of Sciences

China

Review Editors

John Fyfe

Environment Canada

Canada

Won-Tae Kwon

National Institute of Meteorological Research

Republic of Korea

Kevin Trenberth

National Center for Atmospheric Research

USA

David Wratt

National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research

New Zealand

Contributing Authors

  • Libu Abraham – Qatar
  • Tércio Ambrizzi – Brazil
  • Bruce Anderson – USA
  • Osamu Arakawa – Japan
  • Raymond Arritt – USA
  • Mark Baldwin – UK
  • Mathew Barlow – USA
  • David Barriopedro – Spain
  • Michela Biasutti – USA
  • Sébastien Biner – Canada
  • David H. Bromwich – USA
  • Josephine Brown – Australia
  • Wenju Cai – Australia
  • Leila V. Carvalho – USA
  • Ping Chang – USA
  • Xiangdong Zhang – USA
  • Jung Choi – Republic of Korea
  • Ole Bøssing Christensen – Denmark
  • Clara Deser – USA
  • Kerry Emanuel – USA
  • Hirokazu Endo – Japan
  • David B. Enfield – USA
  • Amato Evan – USA
  • Alessandra Giannini – USA
  • Nathan Gillett – Canada
  • Annamalai Hariharasubramanian – USA
  • Ping Huang – China
  • Julie Jones – UK
  • Ashok Karumuri – India
  • Jack Katzfey – Australia
  • Erik Kjellström – Sweden
  • Jeff Knight – UK
  • Thomas Knutson – USA
  • Ashwini Kulkarni – India
  • Koteswara Rao Kundeti – India
  • William K. Lau – USA
  • Geert Lenderink – Netherlands
  • Chris Lennard – South Africa
  • Lai-yung Ruby Leung – USA
  • Renping Lin – China
  • Teresa Losada – Spain
  • Neil C. Mackellar – South Africa
  • Victor Magaña – Mexico
  • Gareth Marshall – UK
  • Linda Mearns – USA
  • Gerald Meehl – USA
  • Claudio Menéndez – Argentina
  • Hiroyuki Murakami – USA
  • Mary Jo Nath – USA
  • J. David Neelin – USA
  • Martin Olesen – Denmark
  • Jan Polcher – France
  • Yun Qian – USA
  • Suchanda Ray – India
  • Katharine Davis Reich – USA
  • Belén Rodríguez de Fonseca – Spain
  • Paolo Ruti – Italy
  • James Screen – UK
  • Jan Sedláček – Switzerland
  • Silvina Solman – Argentina
  • Martin Stendel – Denmark
  • Samantha Stevenson – USA
  • Izuru Takayabu – Japan
  • John Turner – UK
  • Caroline Ummenhofer – USA
  • Geert Jan van Oldenborgh – Netherlands
  • Kevin Walsh – Australia
  • Bin Wang – USA
  • Chunzai Wang – USA
  • Ian Watterson – Australia
  • Matthew Widlansky – USA
  • Andrew Wittenberg – USA
  • Tim Woollings – UK
  • Sang-Wook Yeh – Republic of Korea
  • Chidong Zhang – USA
  • Lixia Zhang – China
  • Xiaotong Zheng – China
  • Liwei Zou – China