Ocean Atmosphere Interaction and Climate Modeling
Ocean Atmosphere Interaction and Climate Modeling
This book aims to acquaint readers with the recent advances in experimental and theoretical investigations of ocean-atmosphere interactions, a rapidly developing field in earth sciences. Particular attention is paid to the scope and perspectives for satellite measurements and mathematical modeling. Current approaches to the construction of coupled ocean-atmosphere models (from the simplest one-dimensional to comprehensive three-dimensional ones) for the solution of key problems in climate theory are discussed in detail. Field measurements and the results of numerical climate simulations are presented and help to explain climate variability that arises from various natural and anthropogenic factors.
- Pays attention to basic physical principles and results
- Suitable as advanced text
- Detailed comparison of a wide range of climate system models
Reviews & endorsements
"...this book will be a valuable asset to climate modelers and to serious graduate students of this controversial arena." Elmar R. Reiter, Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics
"I recommend that a library possess this book...since there is no other book on the subject." Edward S. Sarachik, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
"This book should prove valuable to graduate students, and interesting to specialists in the field." Zbigniew Sorbjan, PAGEOPH
Product details
April 2006Paperback
9780521025935
392 pages
245 × 169 × 19 mm
0.614kg
51 b/w illus. 15 tables
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Table of Contents
- Preface
- 1. Preliminary information
- 2. Present state of the climatic system
- 3. Small-scale ocean-atmosphere interaction
- 4. Mesoscale ocean-atmosphere interaction
- 5. Large-scale ocean-atmosphere interaction
- 6. Response of the ocean-atmosphere system to external forcing
- References
- Index.
