TY - BOOK AU - Philander, S. George TI - Our affair with EL NINO SN - 9780691126227 PY - 2004/// PB - Princeton University Press, N.J. N1 - PART 1: WHO IS EL NIÑO? 1. A Mercurial Character 2. A Fallen Angel? 3. A Construct of Ours 4. A Matchmaker PART 2: OUR DILEMMA 5. Two Incompatible Cultures 6. “Small” Science versus “Big” Science PART 3: COMMON GROUND 7. The Perspective of a Painter 8. The Perspective of a Poet 9. The Perspective of a Musician 10. A Marriage of the “Hard” and “Soft” Sciences 11. The Cloud PART 4: A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE SCIENCE 12. Predicting the Weather 13. Investigating the Atmospheric Circulation 14. Exploring the Oceans 15. Reconciling Divergent Perspectives on El Niño 16. Taking a Long-Term Geological View PART 5: COPING WITH HAZARDS 17. Famines in India 18. Fisheries of Peru 19. Droughts in Zimbabwe EPILOGUE: Becoming Custodians of Planet Earth ER -