The Oceans and Climate

Grant Bigg

274 pages, parution le 09/12/2003 (2^eme édition)

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Résumé

The oceans are an integral and important part of the climate system. The Oceans and Climate introduces the multi-disciplinary controls on air-sea interaction - physical, chemical and biological - and shows how these interact. It demonstrates how the ocean contributes to, and is affected by, climate processes on timescales from seasonal to millennial and longer. Past, present and future relationships between the ocean and climate are discussed.
The new edition of this successful textbook has been completely updated throughout, with extensive new material on thermohaline processes in the ocean and their link to both abrupt climate change and longer-term climate change. It will prove an ideal course and reference book for undergraduate and graduate 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.

The climate system
Physical interaction between the ocean and atmosphere
Chemical interaction of the atmosphere and ocean
Biochemical interaction of the atmosphere and ocean
Large-scale air-sea interaction
The ocean and natural climatic variability
The ocean and climatic change

Appendixes
Glossary
Bibliography
Index

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Cambridge University Press
Auteur(s)	Grant Bigg
Parution	09/12/2003
Édition	2^eme édition
Nb. de pages	274
Format	17,5 x 24,5
Couverture	Broché
Poids	575g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780521016346
ISBN13	978-0-521-01634-6