Mathematical and Physical Fundamentals of Climate Change

Mathematical and Physical Fundamentals of Climate Change is the first book to provide an overview of the math and physics necessary for scientists to understand and apply atmospheric and oceanic models to climate research.

Zhihua Zhang (Author), John C. Moore (Author)

9780128000663

Hardback, published 25 November 2014

494 pages, 20 illustrations
22.9 x 15.1 x 3 cm, 0.86 kg

Mathematical and Physical Fundamentals of Climate Change is the first book to provide an overview of the math and physics necessary for scientists to understand and apply atmospheric and oceanic models to climate research. The book begins with basic mathematics then leads on to specific applications in atmospheric and ocean dynamics, such as fluid dynamics, atmospheric dynamics, oceanic dynamics, and glaciers and sea level rise. Mathematical and Physical Fundamentals of Climate Change provides a solid foundation in math and physics with which to understand global warming, natural climate variations, and climate models. This book informs the future users of climate models and the decision-makers of tomorrow by providing the depth they need. Developed from a course that the authors teach at Beijing Normal University, the material has been extensively class-tested and contains online resources, such as presentation files, lecture notes, solutions to problems and MATLab codes.

Preface: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Climate Change Research1. Fourier Analysis2. Time-Frequency Analysis3. Filter Design4. Remote Sensing5. Basic Probability and Statistics6. Empirical Orthogonal Functions (EOFs)7. Random Processes and Power Spectra8. Autoregressive Moving Average (ARMA) Models9. Data Assimilation10. Fluid Dynamics11. Atmospheric Dynamics12. Oceanic Dynamics13. Glaciers and Sea Level Rise14. Climate and Earth System Models

Subject Areas: Climate change [RNPG], Meteorology & climatology [RBP], Applied mathematics [PBW]