Introduction -- Energy balance and transport -- Tropical convection and planetary-scale circulation -- The Madden-Julian Oscillation -- Summer monsoons -- Subtropical climate: Trade winds and low clouds -- Equatorial Oceanography -- Coupled feedbacks and structures of tropical climatology -- El Nino/Southern Oscillation and the global influence -- Tropical Atlantic Variability -- Indian Ocean variability -- Extratropical ocean-atmosphere interactions and the influence on the tropics -- Global warming: Thermodynamic effects -- Dynamics of Regional climate change.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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