Markus Jochum
National Center for Atmospheric Research
Oceanography Section
1850 Table Mesa Drive, Room 415
Boulder, CO 80307-3200
USA
markus@ucar.edu
Raghu Murtugudde
ESSIC/UMD
CSS Bldg/Room 2201
College Park, MD 20742
USA
ragu@essic.umd.edu
Cover photograph courtesy of Andrew Shepherd NOAA/PMEL.
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National Center for Atmospheric Research
Oceanography Section
1850 Table Mesa Drive, Room 415
Boulder, CO 80307-3200
USA
markus@ucar.edu
Raghu Murtugudde
ESSIC/UMD
CSS Bldg/Room 2201
College Park, MD 20742
USA
ragu@essic.umd.edu
Cover photograph courtesy of Andrew Shepherd NOAA/PMEL.
Library of Congress Control Number: 2005935458
ISBN 10: 0-387-30261-1
ISBN 13: 978-0387-30261-4
C
2006 Springer Science+Business Media, Inc.
All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013,
USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with
any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or
dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden.
The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are
not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject
to proprietary rights.
Printed in the United States of America.
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