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Climates of South Asia. By G.B. PANT and K. RuPA KUMAR.
Chichester: John Wiley and Sons, 1997, 320 pp. 75.00. ISBN 0 471 94948 5
This book will be welcomed by those who have an interest in the South Asian monsoon, since there are not many books such as this one, which integrates the climates of South Asia in one volume. By drawing on a very extensive literature, the book provides an up-to-date, detailed analysis and synthesis of the South Asian monsoon.
The first part of the text (Chapters 1-4) provides a useful introduction to the physical and dynamic mechanisms that shape the South Asian monsoon in geographic space. In Chapter 1, atmospheric teleconnections between the South Asian monsoon and ENSO events in the Pacific, and links with mid-latitude circulations, help place...