Ocean Circulation and Climate: Observing and Modelling the Global Ocean

✍ Scribed by Gerold Siedler, John Church and John Gould (Eds.)

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 737
• Series: International Geophysics 77
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book presents the views of leading scientists on our knowledge of the global ocean circulation following completion of the observational phase of the World Ocean Circulation Experiment. WOCE's in situ physical and chemical measurements together with satellite altimetry have produced a data set of unprecedented scope and precision.This data set provides the basis for development of ocean and coupled ocean-atmosphere circulation models used for understanding ocean and climate variability and projecting climate change. The book guides the reader through the analysis, interpretation, modeling, and synthesis of these data.This book will be of value to those interested in the global oceans, in climate variability and change, and in the oceanic uptake of anthropogenic carbon, particularly oceanographers, meteorologists, and other climate scientists.

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Contributors
Pages xiii-xvi

Foreword
Page xvii
D. James Baker

Preface
Pages xviii-iixix
John Gould, John Church, Gerold Siedler

Acknowledgment
Page xx

Chapter 1.1 Climate and oceans Original Research Article
Pages 3-9
Hartmut Grassl

Chapter 1.2 Ocean processes and climate phenomena Original Research Article
Pages 11-30
Allyn Clarke, John Church, John Gould

Chapter 1.3 The origins, development and conduct of WOCE Original Research Article
Pages 31-43,I-VIII
B.J. Thompson, J. Crease, John Gould

Chapter 2.1 Global problems and global observations Original Research Article
Pages 47-58
Carl Wunsch

Chapter 2.2 High-resolution modelling of the thermohaline and wind-driven circulation Original Research Article
Pages 59-77,IX-XII
Claus W. Böning, Albert J. Semtner

Chapter 2.3 Coupled ocean-atmosphere models Original Research Article
Pages 79-96
Richard A. Wood, Frank O. Bryan

Chapter 3.1 Shipboard observations during WOCE Original Research Article
Pages 99-122
B.A. King, E. Firing, T. M.Joyce

Chapter 3.2 Subsurface lagrangian observations during the 1990s Original Research Article
Pages 123-139
Russ E. Davis, Walter Zenk

Chapter 3.3 Ocean circulation and variability from satellite altimetry Original Research Article
Pages 141-172,XIII-XXVIII
Lee-Lueng Fu

Chapter 3.4 Air-sea fluxes from satellite data Original Research Article
Pages 173-180
W.Timothy Liu, Kristina B. Katsaros

Chapter 3.5 Developing the WOCE global data system Original Research Article
Pages 181-190
Eric J. Lindstrom, David M. Legier

Chapter 4.1 The world ocean surface circulation Original Research Article
Pages 193-204
Peter Niiler

Chapter 4.2 The interior circulation of the ocean Original Research Article
Pages 205-214
D.J. Webb, N. Suginohara

Chapter 4.3 The tropical ocean circulation Original Research Article
Pages 215-246
J.S. Godfrey, G. C.Johnson, M.J. McPhaden, G. Reverdin, Susan E. Wijffels

Chapter 4.4 Tropical-extratropical oceanic exchange pathways Original Research Article
Pages 247-257
Zhengyu Liu, S.G.H. Philander

Chapter 4.5 Quantification of the deep circulation Original Research Article
Pages 259-270
Nelson G. Hogg

Chapter 4.6 The antarctic circumpolar current system Original Research Article
Pages 271-302,XXIX-XXXVI
Stephen R. Rintoul, Chris W. Hughes, Dirk Olbers

Chapter 4.7 Interocean exchange Original Research Article
Pages 303-314
Arnold L Gordon

Chapter 5.1 Ocean surface water mass transformation Original Research Article
Pages 317-336
William G. Large, A.J. George Nurser

Chapter 5.2 Mixing and stirring in the ocean interior Original Research Article
Pages 337-355
John M.Toole, Trevor J. McDougall

Chapter 5.3 Subduction Original Research Article
Pages 357-371
James F. Price

Chapter 5.4 Mode waters Original Research Article
Pages 373-386
Kimio Hanawa, Lynne D.Talley

Chapter 5.5 Deep convection Original Research Article
Pages 387-400
John Lazier, Robert Pickart, Peter Rhines

Chapter 5.6 The dense northern overflows Original Research Article
Pages 401-417
Peter M.Saunders

Chapter 5.7 Mediterranean water and global circulation Original Research Article
Pages 419-429,XXXVII-XLVIII
Julio Candela

Chapter 5.8 Transformation and age of water masses Original Research Article
Pages 431-452
P. Schlosser, J.L. Bullister, R. Fine, W.J. Jenkins, R. Key, J. Lupton, W. Roether, W.M. Smethiejr

Chapter 6.1 Ocean heat transport Original Research Article
Pages 455-474
Harry L. Bryden, Shiro Imawaki

Chapter 6.2 Ocean transport of fresh water Original Research Article
Pages 475-488
Susan E. Wijffels

Chapter 6.3 Storage and transport of excess CO₂ in the oceans:The JGOFS/WOCE global CO₂ survey Original Research Article
Pages 489-521,XLIX-L
Douglas W.R.Wallace

Chapter 7.1 Towards a woce synthesis Original Research Article
Pages 525-545
Lynne D.Talley, Detlef Stammer, Ichiro Fukumori

Chapter 7.2 Numerical ocean circulation modelling: present status and future directions Original Research Article
Pages 547-556
J. Willebrand, D.B. Haidvogel

Chapter 7.3 The world during WOCE Original Research Article
Pages 557-583
Bob Dickson, Jim Hurrell, Nathan Bindoff, Annie Wong, Brian Arbic, Breck Owens, Shiro Imawaki, Igor Yashayaev

Chapter 7.4 Ocean and climate prediction - the WOCE legacy Original Research Article
Pages 585-602,LI-LX
Neville Smith

References
Pages 603-685

Acronyms, abbreviations and terms
Pages 686-692

Index
Pages 693-712

✦ Subjects

Науки о Земле;Океанология (океанография);