Global Monsoon across timescales

Unravelling cross-recurrence: coupling across timescales

We present an extension of cross-recurrence analysis for dual gaze analysis which is suited for complex situations where for instance the objects of interest are not all visible at all times or when stimulus exploration is not homogeneous. The typicical situation is a visual stimulus that is scrolled or that is explored sequentially. We use a recurrence simulation to illustrate how to measure t...

Max-weight scheduling across multiple timescales

The timescales of global surface-ocean connectivity

Planktonic communities are shaped through a balance of local evolutionary adaptation and ecological succession driven in large part by migration. The timescales over which these processes operate are still largely unresolved. Here we use Lagrangian particle tracking and network theory to quantify the timescale over which surface currents connect different regions of the global ocean. We find th...

Changes in Global Monsoon Circulations Since 1950

We examined changes in several independent intensity indices of four major tropical monsoonal circulations for the period 1950–1998. These intensity indices included observed land surface precipitation and observed ocean surface pressure in the monsoon regions as well as upperlevel divergence calculated at several standard levels from the NCAR/NCEP reanalysis. These values were averaged seasona...

Global Monsoon in a Changing Climate

Monsoons, the most energetic tropical climate system, exert a great social and economic impact upon billions of people around the world. This chapter reviews recent progress in our understanding of the global monsoon (GM) system and its associated precipitation changes in the present and future warming climates. The GM can be viewed as an integrated system of all regional monsoons over the glob...