Coupled Atmosphere-Ocean Dynamics
From El Nino to Climate Change
- Format: Pocket
- Antall sider: 400
- Språk: Engelsk
- Forlag/Utgiver: SD Books
- EAN: 9780323954907
- Utgivelsesår: 2023
- Bidragsyter: Xie, Shang-Ping (Distinguished Professor of Climate Science and Roger Revelle Chair, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, USA)
Coupled Atmosphere-Ocean Dynamics of Climate Variability and Climate Change presents the patterns, mechanisms, and predictability of climate variability and anthropogenic climate change. Based on a graduate course the author has taught over 25 years, this book provides the physical foundation for those who are interested in fundamental questions such as: why climate varies from one year to another; how predictable climate is; and how climate will change in the face of increasing greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. This is the first comprehensive and systematic treatment of this subject that simultaneously draws on the latest research and is accessible for graduate students.
The book takes a step-by-step systematic approach to coupled ocean-atmosphere interactions. This allows a wide range of comparative views: climate modes among and across different tropical ocean basins, ocean feedback on the atmosphere (in and out of the tropics), and spontaneous internal oscillation