Oceanic Circulation Models: Combining Data and Dynamics

J. Willebrand

ISBN 10: 9401069468 / ISBN 13: 9789401069465

Published by Springer Netherlands, 2012

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - This book which is the outcome of a NATO-Advanced Study Institute on Mod elling the Ocean Circulation and Geochemical Tracer Transport is concerned with using models to infer the ocean circulation. Understanding our climate is one of the major problems of the late twentieth century. The possible climatic changes resulting from the rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide and other trace gases are of primary interest and the ocean pla. ys a ma. jor role in determining the magnitude, temporal evolution and regional distribution of those changes. Because of the poor observational basis the ocean general circulation is not well understood. The World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE) which is now underway is an attempt to improve our knowledge of ocean dynamics and thermodynamics on global scales relevant to climate change. Despite those efforts, the oceanic data base is likely to remain scarce and it is crucial to use appropriate methods in order to extract the maximum amount of information from observations. The book contains a thorough analysis of methods to combine data of val'ious types with dynamical concepts, and to assimilate data directly into ocean models. The properties of geocl;temical tracers such as HC, He, Tritium and Freons and how they may be used to impose integral constraints on the ocean circulation are discussed.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Oceanic Circulation Models: Combining Data and Dynamics
• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9401069468
• ISBN 13: 9789401069465
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 235W x 155H x 34D millimeters 235 millimeters width by 155 millimeters height by 34 millimeters depth
• Weight: 943 grams

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Synopsis

This book which is the outcome of a NATO-Advanced Study Institute on Mod­ elling the Ocean Circulation and Geochemical Tracer Transport is concerned with using models to infer the ocean circulation. Understanding our climate is one of the major problems of the late twentieth century. The possible climatic changes resulting from the rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide and other trace gases are of primary interest and the ocean pla. ys a ma. jor role in determining the magnitude, temporal evolution and regional distribution of those changes. Because of the poor observational basis the ocean general circulation is not well understood. The World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE) which is now underway is an attempt to improve our knowledge of ocean dynamics and thermodynamics on global scales relevant to climate change. Despite those efforts, the oceanic data base is likely to remain scarce and it is crucial to use appropriate methods in order to extract the maximum amount of information from observations. The book contains a thorough analysis of methods to combine data of val'ious types with dynamical concepts, and to assimilate data directly into ocean models. The properties of geocl;temical tracers such as HC, He, Tritium and Freons and how they may be used to impose integral constraints on the ocean circulation are discussed.

Review

`In summary, the editors have assembled a rather well integrated collection of lectures... The book should be warmly recommended to anyone, wishing to enter this burgeoning oceanographic discipline.'
Pageoph 135 (1) 1991