Ocean Atmosphere Interaction and Climate Modeling [Hardcover]

A comprehensive 1995 treatment of all aspects of ocean-atmosphere interactions, for advanced students and professional researchers.This 1995 text for advanced students and professional researchers presents a comprehensive treatment of all aspects of ocean-atmosphere interactions and their relevance for climate modeling. It will appeal to all those interested in research in oceanography, meteorology and environmental sciences.This 1995 text for advanced students and professional researchers presents a comprehensive treatment of all aspects of ocean-atmosphere interactions and their relevance for climate modeling. It will appeal to all those interested in research in oceanography, meteorology and environmental sciences.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.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. ...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. l#i