商品簡介
The ocean plays a central role for the climate of the earth.Storage and transport by the oceanic circulation control thetemporal evolution of climate change resulting from theincrease of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, and affectmagnitude and regional distribution of those changes.Oninterannual and longer time scales the ocean is furthermore,through interaction with the atmosphere, a source ofimportant natural climate variability. Chemical andbiological processes in the ocean also are strongly coupledto climate change, particularly through the global carboncycle. This book contains a series of lectures discussingthe complex processes and interactions that link the oceanto the climate system, and covers topics from the fields ofphysical, chemical and biological oceanography as well asmeteorology. The focus is on modeling ocean circulationdynamics, hydrological processes in the atmosphere, tropicalocean-atmosphere interactions, and the oceanic carbon cycle.
