Our affair with El Niño : how we transformed an enchanting Peruvian current into a global climate hazard / S. George Philander.
Philander, S. George.
2004
GC296.8.E4 P485 2004 (Mapit)
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Title Our affair with El Niño : how we transformed an enchanting Peruvian current into a global climate hazard / S. George Philander.
Author Philander, S. George.
ISBN 0691113351 (alk. paper)
Imprint Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2004.
Language English
Description x, 275 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Call Number GC296.8.E4 P485 2004
Dewey Decimal Classification 551.6
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-272) and index.
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Part 1: Who is El Niño?
A mercurial character
A fallen angel?
A construct of ours
A matchmaker
Part 2: Our dilemma
Two incompatible cultures
"Small" science versus "big" science
Part 3: Common ground
The perspective of a painter
The perspective of a poet
The perspective of a musician
A marriage of the "hard" and "soft" sciences
The cloud
Part 4: A brief history of the science
Predicting the weather
Investigating the atmospheric circulation
Exploring the oceans
Reconciling divergent perspectives on El Niño
Taking a long-term geological view
Part 5: Coping with hazards
Famines in India
Fisheries of Peru
Droughts in Zimbabwe
Epilogue: becoming custodians of planet Earth.

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