The new edition of this successful textbook has been completely updated, with extensive new material on thermohaline processes in the ocean and their link to both abrupt and longer-term climate change. It will be an appropriate course and reference book for students studying earth and environmental
Climate and the Oceans
โ Scribed by Vallis G.K.
- Publisher
- PUP
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 244
- Category
- Library
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๐ SIMILAR VOLUMES
Cover; Contents; Preface; 1 Basics of Climate; 2 The Oceans: A Descriptive Overview; 3 A Brief Introduction to Dynamics; 4 The Ocean Circulation; 5 The Ocean's Overall Role in Climate; 6 Climate Variability from Weeks to Years; 7 Global Warming and the Ocean; Notes; Further Reading; Glossary; Refere
<p>The oceans exert a vital moderating influence on the Earth's climate system. They provide inertia to the global climate, essentially acting as the pacemaker of climate variability and change, and they provide heat to high latitudes, keeping them habitable. <i>Climate and the Oceans</i> offers a s
The oceans exert a vital moderating influence on the Earth's climate system. They provide inertia to the global climate, essentially acting as the pacemaker of climate variability and change, and they provide heat to high latitudes, keeping them habitable. Climate and the Oceans offers a short, self
New edition of successful textbook that introduces the multi-disciplinary controls on air-sea interaction.