ENSO Response to Altered Climates

Andrew T. Wittenberg

Ph.D. Thesis, Princeton University, 2002
 

Stochastic ensemble forecast

Abstract

Electronic versions (hyperlinked PDF, 319 pages, single-spaced, 11pt font)

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    • Complete dissertation in color (18.6 MB)
    Complete dissertation in black & white (18.0 MB)
    The color version is also available in parts:
    Title, Abstract, Acknowledgments, Contents (8 pages, 0.08 MB)
    Chapter 1: Introduction (20 pages, 0.7 MB)
    Chapter 2: Analysis of Observations (35 pages, 4.2 MB)
    Chapter 3: Statistical Wind Stress Model (28 pages, 2.2 MB)
    Chapter 4: Coupled Climate Model (54 pages, 5.2 MB)
    Chapter 5: Sensitivities of the Tropical Pacific Climatology (37 pages, 2.3 MB)
    Chapter 6: Theory of ENSO Sensitivity to Climate (17 pages, 0.2 MB)
    Chapter 7: Simulated ENSO Sensitivity to Climate (55 pages, 2.9 MB)
    Chapter 8: Conclusion (5 pages, 0.05 MB)
    Appendices & Bibliography (60 pages, 1.2 MB)


    Published version, double-spaced for the Princeton University Library, frozen as published in June 2002:

    Complete dissertation in black & white (gzipped PostScript, 475 pages, 12pt font, 16.8 MB)
    See the errata.
    Official readers: Kirk Bryan, Anthony Rosati, Geoffrey Vallis
    Public Defense: 2 May 2002
    Examiners: Ants Leetmaa, George Philander, Geoffrey Vallis

    Bibliographic Information:

    Wittenberg, A. T., 2002: ENSO Response to Altered Climates, Ph.D. thesis, Princeton University, 475pp.
    BibTeX entry:

    @phdthesis{wittenberg02
      ,author = "Wittenberg, A T"
      ,title = "{ENSO Response to Altered Climates}"
      ,school = "Princeton University"
      ,year = "2002"
      ,note = "475pp"
    }

    Keywords:

    tropical Pacific ocean, atmosphere, tropics, ENSO, El Nino, La Nina, Southern Oscillation, air-sea interaction, coupling, climate change, climate drift, forecast, prediction, predictability, wind stress, trade winds, Intertropical Convergence Zone, ITCZ, thermocline, upwelling, undercurrent, advection, cold tongue, warm pool, statistical, stochastic, hybrid, numerical, coupled, general circulation model, GCM, decadal, interannual, intraseasonal, noise, sea surface temperature, SST, heat budget, energy budget, nonlinear dynamical system

    This page was last updated August 2002.