Ocean Atmosphere Interaction and Climate Modeling

A comprehensive 1995 treatment of all aspects of ocean-atmosphere interactions, for advanced students and professional researchers.

Boris A. Kagan (Author), Mikhail Hazin (Translated by)

9780521025935, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 20 April 2006

392 pages, 51 b/w illus. 15 tables
24.5 x 16.9 x 1.9 cm, 0.614 kg

"This book should prove valuable to graduate students, and interesting to specialists in the field." Zbigniew Sorbjan, PAGEOPH

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.

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.

Subject Areas: Atmospheric physics [PHVJ]