TY - JOUR
AU - Pitman, A.
AB - C. E Chang and T. N. Krishnamurti (eds.), Monsoon Meteorology, 1987, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 544 pp., 70.00. Monsoons, the seasonally reversing winds and associated rains that profoundly affect human existence in large parts of Asia and Africa, are major components of the earth's climate system. As such, they occupy an important place in the study of climate and climatic change. Interest in the meteorology of monsoons has acceler- ated in recent years, in part because of the availability of special data sets derived from large field programs and, in part because of the development of an enhanced capability for atmospheric modelling that has opened up new vistas in monsoon research. This book, which bears the same name as Colin Ramage's well-known book published in 1971, claims to be the first major review of monsoon research since the Global Weather Experiment and its companion Monsoon Experiment were carried out during the period from December 1978 through November 1979. Some might dispute this claim since there are many overlaps between the subjects treated here (and even some overlap between the authors) and those appearing in the book entitled Monsoons, published in the same year as the present book and reviewed earlier 
TI - Book reviews
JF - Climatic Change
DO - 10.1007/BF00144509
DA - 2004-06-14
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/book-reviews-ZyOS01bv2H
SP - 357
EP - 366
VL - 16
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -