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2005, Oceanography 18(1):250–251, http://dx.doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2005.77
BOOK REVIEW | Weather Cycles: Real or Imaginary?
Second Edition
Book Information | Reviewer | First Paragraph | Full Review | Citation
Book Information
Weather Cycles: Real or Imaginary?
By William James Burroughs, Second Edition, Cambridge University Press, 2003, 330 pages
Hardcover: ISBN 0521820847, $100 US
Paperback: ISBN 0521528224, $50 US
Reviewer
Michael N. Evans | Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, The University of Arizona, Tucson, USA
First Paragraph
Are observed climate variations best described as cyclical, stochastic, or chaotic in nature? This is the essential question posed by W.J. Burroughs. Our confidence in climate predictions on time scales of seasons to centuries, including the global warming debate, depends on the answer. The book explores evidence and arguments for cyclical features in direct meteorological records such as temperature and precipitation, as well as indirect, or proxy, climate data derived from geological, biological, and economic data series. It then proceeds to lay out the physical and statistical mechanisms that may support the existence of these cyclicities when the observations are messy, indirect, incomplete, or simply don't span enough time.
Full Review
Citation
Evans, M.N. 2005. Review of Weather Cycles: Real or Imaginary? Second Edition, by W.J. Burroughs. Oceanography 18(1):250–251, http://dx.doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2005.77.