Ocean Atmosphere Interaction and Climate Modeling
Ocean Atmosphere Interaction and Climate Modeling
This 1995 text is addressed to advanced students in oceanography, meteorology and environmental sciences, as well as to professional researchers in these fields. It aims to acquaint them with 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. Approaches to the construction of coupled ocean-atmosphere models (from the simplest one-dimensional to the most 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, to help understand the variability arising 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
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.
