Ocean Processes in Climate Dynamics: Global and Mediterranean Examples: 419 (Nato Science Series C:, 419) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0792326245 ISBN 13: 9780792326243

Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1993

Synopsis

One of the most crucial but still very poorly understood topics of oceanographic science is the role of ocean processes in contributing to the dynamics of climate and global change. This book presents a series of high level lectures on the major categories of ocean/atmosphere processes. Three of these major issues are the focus of the lectures: (1) air--sea interaction processes; (2) water mass formation, dispersion and mixing; (3) general circulation, with specific emphasis on the thermohaline component. Global examples in the world ocean are provided and discussed in the lectures. In parallel, the Mediterranean Sea is a laboratory basin in providing analogues of the above global processes relevant to climate dynamics. They include the Mediterranean thermohaline circulation with its own `conveyor belt'; intermediate and deep water mass formation and transformations, dispersion and mixing. No other book in the field provides a review of fundamental lectures on these processes, coupled with global examples and their Mediterranean analogues.

Edition details

• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
• Publication date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0792326245
• ISBN 13: 9780792326243
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 459
• Editor: Malanotte-Rizzoli P.M., Robinson Allan R.