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Energy and Water Cycles in the Climate System

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1993

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Editors:
  1. Ehrhard Raschke

    1. GKSS Forschungszentrum Geesthacht GmbH, Geesthacht, Germany

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  2. Daniela Jacob

    1. GKSS Forschungszentrum Geesthacht GmbH, Geesthacht, Germany

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Part of the book series: Nato ASI Subseries I: (ASII, volume 5)

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Table of contents (15 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-IX
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  2. Atmospheric Energetics and the Water Cycle

    • José Pinto Peixoto
    Pages 1-42

  3. Aspects of Large Scale Modelling

    • Ernst Klinker
    Pages 43-67

  4. Radiation-Cloud-Climate Interaction

    • Ehrhard Raschke
    Pages 69-93

  5. Convective and Large-Scale Cloud Processes in GCMS

    • Anthony D. Del Genio
    Pages 95-121

  6. Satellite Observations of Radiation and Clouds to Diagnose Energy Exchanges in the Climate: Part I

    • William B. Rossow
    Pages 123-141

  7. Satellite Observations of Radiation and Clouds to Diagnose Energy Exchanges in the Climate: Part II

    • William B. Rossow
    Pages 143-164

  8. Observation and Analysis of Global Rainfall

    • E. Ruprecht
    Pages 165-185

  9. Data Assimilation Problems

    • Olivier Talagrand
    Pages 187-213

  10. Forcing the Ocean by Heat and Freshwater Fluxes

    • Jürgen Willebrand
    Pages 215-233

  11. Modelling of Oceans Circulation

    • P. Delecluse
    Pages 235-262

  12. Observations of Air Sea Fluxes

    • Lutz Hasse
    Pages 263-293

  13. Sea-Ice Interactions in Polar Regions

    • J. P. van Ypersele
    Pages 295-322

  14. The Soil-Vegetation-Atmosphere Interface

    • W. James Shuttleworth
    Pages 323-364

  15. Observing and Modelling the Planetary Boundary Layer

    • Søren E. Larsen
    Pages 365-418

  16. The Terrestrial Hydrological Cycle

    • J. N. M. Stricker, C. R. Kim, R. A. Feddes, J. C. van Dam, P. Droogers, G. H. de Rooij
    Pages 419-444

  17. Back Matter

    Pages 445-467
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Water is the most effective agent in the climate system to modulate energy transfer by radiative processes, through its exchanges of latent heat and within cascades of chemical processes. It is the source of all life on earth, and once convective clouds are formed, it enables large vertical transports of momentum, heat and various atmospheric constituents up to levels above the tropical tropopause. Water triggers very complex processes at the earth's continental surfaces and within the oceans. At last, water in its gaseous phase is the most important greenhouse-gas! Numerical modelling and measurements of the state of the present climate system needs a very thorough understanding of all these processes and their various interactions and forcings. This is a prerequisite for more substantial forecasts of future states in all scales of time, from days to centuries. Therefore, the management of the World Climate Research Programme established in 1988 the new programme GEWEX (Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment). GEWEX is specifically defined to determine the energy and water transports in the fast components of the climate system with the presently available modelling and measurement means and to provide new capabilities for the future. Research in GEWEX must further develop methods to determine the influence of climatic anomalies on available water resources.

Editors and Affiliations

  • GKSS Forschungszentrum Geesthacht GmbH, Geesthacht, Germany

    Ehrhard Raschke, Daniela Jacob

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