Ocean circulation and climate : a 21st century perspective /
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| Language: | English |
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Oxford, UK :
Elsevier/Academic Press,
[2013]
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| Edition: | [2nd ed.]. |
| Series: | International geophysics series ;
v. 103. |
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Table of Contents:
- Front Cover; Ocean Circulation and Climate: A 21st Century Perspective; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgments; Cover Graphics; Preface; Part I: The Ocean's Role in the Climate System; Chapter 1: The Ocean as a Component of the Climate System; 1. Setting the Scene; 2. The Ocean as an Exchanging Earth System Reservoir; 3. Atmosphere-Ocean Fluxes and Meridional Transports; 4. Global-Scale Surface and Deep Ocean Circulations; 5. Large-Scale Modes of Variability Involving the Ocean; 6. The Ocean's Role in Past Climate Change; 7. The Ocean in the Anthropocene; 8. Concluding Thoughts
- AcknowledgmentsReferences; Chapter 2: Paleoclimatic Ocean Circulation and Sea-Level Changes; 1. Introduction; 2. Reconstructing Past Ocean States; 2.1. Proxies for Past Ocean Circulation; 2.1.1. Nutrient Water Mass Tracers; 2.1.2. Conservative Water Mass Tracers; 2.1.3. Circulation Rate Tracers; 2.1.4. Other Tracers; 2.2. Past Sea-Level Proxies; 2.2.1. Coastal Morphology and Corals; 2.2.2. Sediment Cores; 2.2.3. Manmade Sea-Level Indicators; 2.3. Models; 3. The Oceans in the Quaternary; 3.1. The Last Glacial Maximum; 3.2. Abrupt Glacial Climate Changes; 3.2.1. Deglaciation
- 3.3. Glacial Cycles3.4. Interglacial Climates; 4. The Deeper Past; 4.1. Challenges of Deep-Time Paleoceanography; 4.2. The Oceans During the Mid-Cretaceous Warm Period; 5. Outlook; Acknowledgments; References; Part II: Ocean Observations; Chapter 3: In Situ Ocean Observations: A Brief History, Present Status, and Future Directions; 1. Introduction; 2. Development of Present Observational Capability; 2.1. Late Nineteenth to Mid-Twentieth Centuries; 2.2. Second Half of Twentieth Century; 2.3. Twenty-First Century: Consolidation of Capabilities and Growth of Sustained Observations
- 3. Emerging and Specialized Ocean Observing Technologies3.1. Advanced Observing Platforms; 3.2. Specialized Observing Systems and Technologies; 3.3. New Sensors; 4. Changes in Data Volume and Coverage and Implication for Synthesis Products; 5. The Future: Outstanding Issues and a New Framework for Global Ocean Observing; 5.1. Building on OceanObs'09; 6. Conclusions; References; Chapter 4: Remote Sensing of the Global Ocean Circulation; 1. Introduction; 2. Ocean General Circulation; 3. Variability of the Large-Scale Ocean Circulation; 3.1. Sea Surface Height
- 3.2. Ocean Mass and Bottom Pressure3.3. Global Mean Sea-Level Change (see also Chapter 27); 3.4. Forcing by the Atmosphere and Air-Sea Interaction; 4. Mesoscale Eddies and Fronts; 4.1. Mapping the Eddy Field; 4.2. Wave Number Spectra and the Ocean Energy Cascade; 4.3. Seasonal and Interannual Variations in Eddy Energy; 4.4. Tracking Individual Eddies; 4.5. Surface Currents from Multisensor Mapping; 4.6. Eddy Fluxes of Ocean Properties (see also Chapter 8); 4.7. Submesoscale Dynamics; 4.8. Eddies and Biogeochemical Processes; 5. Summary and Outlook; Acknowledgments; References