Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Xie, Shang-Ping,

Titel

Coupled Atmosphere-Ocean Dynamics : from El Nino to climate change

Ort / Verlag

Amsterdam : Elsevier,

Erscheinungsjahr

2023

Verknüpfte Titel

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Introduction -- Energy balance and transport -- Tropical convection and planetary-scale circulation -- The Madden-Julian Oscillation -- Summer monsoons -- Subtropical climate: Trade winds and low clouds -- Equatorial Oceanography -- Coupled feedbacks and structures of tropical climatology -- El Nino/Southern Oscillation and the global influence -- Tropical Atlantic Variability -- Indian Ocean variability -- Extratropical ocean-atmosphere interactions and the influence on the tropics -- Global warming: Thermodynamic effects -- Dynamics of Regional climate change.
• 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 versus externally forced climate change. Such comparative views offer unprecedented insight into the dynamics of climate variability and predictability. This book can be used as supplementary reading for advanced undergraduate students, as coursework in climate dynamics, modeling, variability, and change, and as a reference book and research monograph for researchers in ocean, atmospheric, climate, and earth system sciences. Delivers the first authored textbook on ocean-atmosphere interactions that give rise to climate variability/predictability and shape regional patterns of anthropogenic climate change Contains historical accounts of major breakthroughs in the field Includes homework questions, helping to reinforce key concepts and applications.
• Description based on: online resource; title from pdf title page (ScienceDirect, viewed on February 5, 2024).