Indonesia is the largest archipelagic country in the world, located between the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean, this makes Indonesia vulnerable to climate change. One of the consequences of climate change is extreme rainfall. Precipitation is influenced by interannual modes of climate variability, such as El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD). Researchers anal…
This book is a collective effort by world experts, bringing together assorted contributions presented during the Ocean Science Session OS-017, of the AOGS-AGU Joint Assembly held in Singapore in 2012 (the Asia Tsunami and Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami events) and other conferences. The chapters cover assessment, evaluation, forecast, policy and lessons learned as well as environmenta…