The Oceans and Climate

✍ Scribed by Grant R. Bigg

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 286
• Edition: 2nd ed
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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 sciences, oceanography, meteorology and climatology. The book will also be useful for students and teachers of geography, physics, chemistry and biology. First Edition Hb (1996): 0-521-45212-0 First Edition Pb (1996): 0-521-58268-7

✦ Table of Contents

Cover Page......Page 1
Title: The Oceans and Climate, Second Edition......Page 4
ISBN 0521815703......Page 5
2 Physical interaction between the ocean and atmosphere......Page 6
4 Biogeochemical interaction of the atmosphere and ocean......Page 7
6 The ocean and natural climatic variability......Page 8
Appendices......Page 9
Preface to the first edition......Page 10
Preface to the second edition......Page 11
1 The climate system......Page 14
1.1 Solar radiation......Page 15
1.2 The atmosphere......Page 17
1.3 The oceans......Page 25
1.4 The cryosphere......Page 32
1.5 The biosphere......Page 34
1.6 The geosphere......Page 35
1.7 Timescales and feedbacks......Page 37
1.8 Variation of the climate system over time......Page 39
1.9 Numerical modelling of the ocean and climate system......Page 44
Further reading......Page 47
2 Physical interaction between the ocean and atmosphere......Page 48
2.1 Radiation......Page 49
2.2 Heat exchange through latent and sensible heat......Page 54
2.3 The oceanic heat balance......Page 58
2.4 Oceanic forcing by air–sea exchange of moisture and heat......Page 61
2.5 Temperature, salinity and density......Page 64
2.6 Basic forces within the atmosphere and ocean......Page 66
2.7 Tidal forces and their influence......Page 71
2.8 Momentum transfer and drag......Page 73
2.9 Waves, the production of aerosols and condensation nuclei......Page 75
2.10 The Ekman spiral and Langmuir circulation......Page 80
2.11 Wind-driven circulation of the ocean......Page 84
2.12 The thermohaline circulation......Page 95
2.13 Oceanic impact on the marine atmospheric circulation......Page 98
Further reading......Page 103
3.1 Solubility of gases......Page 104
3.2 Gas exchange across the air–sea interface......Page 107
3.3 The carbon cycle......Page 110
3.4 Oxygen in the ocean......Page 116
3.5 The transfer of particles......Page 119
3.6 Photochemical reactions in sea water......Page 129
3.7 Chemical tracers......Page 130
Further reading......Page 133
4.1 Phytoplankton......Page 135
4.2 Climatically active products of marine biological processes......Page 143
4.3 Bio-geochemical cycles......Page 147
4.4 DMS and climate......Page 149
Further reading......Page 153
5.1 Tropospheric pressure systems and the ocean......Page 154
5.2 ENSO: Ocean–atmosphere interaction in the tropics......Page 172
5.3 Abrupt change in the thermohaline circulation......Page 195
Further reading......Page 199
6.1 The oceanic role in the geological evolution of climate......Page 200
6.2 The ocean and Quaternary glaciation......Page 207
6.3 The ocean and Holocene climate......Page 218
6.4 Marine climate change during the twentieth century......Page 222
Further reading......Page 232
7.1 Natural variability......Page 234
7.2 Anthropogenic forcing of climate......Page 239
7.3 The climate of the future......Page 253
Further reading......Page 259
Appendix A Useful constants and the electromagnetic spectrum (Fig. A.1)......Page 260
Appendix B Periodic Table and electron orbital configuration......Page 262
Appendix C Stability, potential temperature and density......Page 267
Appendix D Rossby waves in the atmosphere and ocean......Page 269
Glossary......Page 270
Bibliography......Page 276
A,B,C......Page 282
H......Page 283
O......Page 284
R,S......Page 285
X,Y,Z......Page 286

✦ Subjects

Науки о Земле;Метеорология и климатология;