Seasonal Climate: Forecasting and Managing Risk - Troccoli, Alberto; Harrison, Mike.; Anderson, David L.T.; Mason, Simon J.; SpringerLink (Online service) (Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2008)
Seasonal Climate Forecasts in Context -- Seasonal Forecasts in Decision Making -- The Production of Seasonal Climate Forecasts -- Overview of Seasonal Forecasting -- Ocean-Atmosphere Basis for Seasonal Climate Forecasting -- Getting the Coupled Model Ready at the Starting Blocks -- Modelling the Atmospheric, Oceanic and Coupled System -- Statistical Modelling -- Calibration and Assessment of Seasonal Climate Forecasts -- From Dynamical Model Predictions to Seasonal Climate Forecasts -- An Introduction to Probability Forecasting -- How Do We Know Whether Seasonal Climate Forecasts are Any Good? -- Developing Successful Application Strategies -- Communicating Seasonal Forecasts -- Building National and Specialised Climate Services -- Water, Health and Early Warnings -- The Future of Seasonal Climate Forecasting -- A Way Forward for Seasonal Climate Services.
Keywords: Atmospheric sciences; Climate change; Environmental economics; Tropical medicine; Atmospheric Sciences; Climate Change Management and Policy; Environmental Economics; Tropical Medicine