The Hadley Circulation: Present, Past and Future ... (ISBN 1402029438)

A Review of "The Hadley Circulation: Present, Past and Future:
This book reviews the global Hadley Circulation that dominates weather patterns across half the earth's surface. Various climate authorities (modelers to paleoclimatologists) have contributed to the book. The net result is a very thorough treatise on our current knowledge of this important circulation feature that helps to maintain the global heat balance with direct connections to El Nino (ENSO) events. The first section of the book examines the dynamics of the Hadley Circulation and the interannual variability of this circulation. Later chapters relate the Hadley Circulation to ENSO, the North Atlantic Oscillation and to the tropical Walker Circulation. Through a series of chapters dealing with paleoclimatological reconstructions of Hadley Cell related climate indices, the authors present an overview of long term changes in the Hadley circulation over the past 10,000 to 30,000 years. Final chapters are devoted to climate scenarios under a warming globe (CO2 or Solar forced changes). This book will be an excellent reference for researchers interested in global climate change as it relates to changes in the Hadley Circulation. The writing in most chapters is very easy to follow and thus, the book should have appeal to a broad spectrum of scientists interested in climate variability in the tropics and subtropics (e.g. meteorologists, climatologists, oceanographers and biologists). The book has numerous graphs, maps and tables that illustrate key features of the Hadley Circulation and its associated interannual variability. With over 500 pages of text, the book is most certainly worth its price.