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Title Ocean circulation and climate : observing and modelling the global ocean / edited by Gerold Siedler, John Church, John Gould
Published San Diego, Calif. ; London : Academic, 2001

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Description xix, 715 pages, 60 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 28 cm
Series International geophysics series ; vol. 77
International geophysics series ; vol. 77
Contents Climate and oceans / Hartmut Grassl -- Ocean processes and climate phenomena / Allyn Clarke, John Church and John Gould -- The origins, development and conduct of WOCE / B.J. Thompson, J. Crease and John Gould -- Global problems and global observations / Carl Wunsch -- High-resolution modelling of the thermohaline and wind-driven circulation / Claus W. Böning and Albert J. Semtner -- Coupled ocean-atmosphere models / Richard A. Wood and Frank O. Bryan -- Shipboard observations during WOCE / B.A. King, E. Firing and T. M.Joyce -- Subsurface lagrangian observations during the 1990s / Russ E. Davis and Walter Zenk -- Ocean circulation and variability from satellite altimetry / Lee-Lueng Fu -- Air-sea fluxes from satellite data / W.Timothy Liu and Kristina B. Katsaros -- Developing the WOCE global data system / Eric J. Lindstrom and David M. Legier -- The world ocean surface circulation / Peter Niiler -- The interior circulation of the ocean / D.J. Webb and N. Suginohara -- The tropical ocean circulation / J.S. Godfrey, G. C.Johnson, M.J. McPhaden, G. Reverdin and Susan E. Wijffels -- Tropical-extratropical oceanic exchange pathways / Zhengyu Liu and S.G.H. Philander -- Quantification of the deep circulation / Nelson G. Hogg -- The Antarctic circumpolar current system / Stephen R. Rintoul, Chris W. Hughes and Dirk Olbers -- Interocean exchange / Arnold L Gordon -- Ocean surface water mass transformation / William G. Large and A.J. George Nurser -- Mixing and stirring in the ocean interior / John M.Toole and Trevor J. McDougall -- Subduction / James F. Price -- Mode waters / Kimio Hanawa and Lynne D.Talley -- Deep convection / John Lazier, Robert Pickart and Peter Rhines -- The dense northern overflows / Peter M.Saunders -- Mediterranean water and global circulation / Julio Candela -- Transformation and age of water masses / P. Schlosser, J.L. Bullister, R. Fine, W.J. Jenkins, R. Key, J. Lupton, W. Roether and W.M. Smethiejr -- Ocean heat transport / Harry L. Bryden and Shiro Imawaki -- Ocean transport of fresh water / Susan E. Wijffels -- Storage and transport of excess CO₂ in the oceans : the JGOFS/WOCE global CO₂ survey / Douglas W.R.Wallace -- Towards a WOCE synthesis / Lynne D.Talley, Detlef Stammer and Ichiro Fukumori -- Numerical ocean circulation modelling : present status and future directions / J. Willebrand and D.B. Haidvogel -- The world during WOCE -- Ocean and climate prediction, the WOCE legacy / Neville Smith
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Also available via the World Wide Web
System requirements: Internet connectivity, World Wide Web browser, and Adobe Acrobat reader
Subject World Ocean Circulation Experiment.
Climatology.
Marine meteorology -- Mathematical models.
Marine meteorology.
Ocean circulation -- Mathematical models.
Ocean circulation.
Ocean-atmosphere interaction.
Author Church, John, 1951-
Gould, W. John (William John), 1942-
Siedler, Gerold.
LC no. 00106870
ISBN 0126413517
Other Titles Ocean circulation & climate