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Modelling Oceanic Climate Interactions

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1993

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Editors:
  1. Jürgen Willebrand

    1. Institut für Meereskunde, Universität Kiel, Kiel, Germany

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  2. David L. T. Anderson

    1. Department of Atmospheric Physics, Clarendon Laboratory, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

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Part of the book series: Nato ASI Subseries I: (ASII, volume 11)

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Table of contents (12 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XIII
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  2. The Modelling of Hydrological Processes in the Atmosphere

    • M. J. Miller
    Pages 1-33

  3. Ocean-Atmosphere Interactions in the Tropics

    • George Philander
    Pages 35-65

  4. Oceanic General Circulation: Wave and Advection Dynamics

    • Peter B. Rhines
    Pages 67-149

  5. On the Oceanic Thermohaline Circulation

    • A. Colin de Verdière
    Pages 151-183

  6. Parameterizing the Effects of Small-Scale Mixing in Large-Scale Numerical Models

    • Ann E. Gargett
    Pages 185-204

  7. Links of the Southern Ocean to the Global Climate

    • Dirk Olbers
    Pages 205-241

  8. Modelling Sea Ice - Mixed Layer Interaction

    • P. Lemke
    Pages 243-269

  9. Biochemical Properties of the Oceanic Carbon Cycle

    • Catherine Goyet, Peter G. Brewer
    Pages 271-297

  10. The Global Carbon Cycle in the Climate System

    • Martin Heimann
    Pages 299-336

  11. Ocean Biology, Trace Metals and Climate

    • Michael Whitfield
    Pages 337-371

  12. Modelling Climatic Interactions of the Marine Biota

    • A. H. Taylor
    Pages 373-413

  13. Design of a 3D Biogeochemical Tracer Model for the Ocean

    • Ernst Maier-Reimer
    Pages 415-464

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 465-472
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The ocean plays a central role in determining the climate of the earth. The oceanic circulation largely controls the temporal evolution of cli­ mate changes resulting from human activities such as the increase of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, and also affects the magnitude and regional distribution of those changes. On interannual and longer time scales the ocean is, through its interaction with the atmosphere, a source of important natural climate variations which we are only now beginning to recognise but whose cause has yet to be properly determined. Chem­ ical and biological processes in the ocean are linked to climate change, particularly through interaction with the global carbon cycle. A quantitative understanding of the oceanic role in the climate system requires models which include many complex processes and interactions, and which are systematically verified with observations. This is the ob­ jective of global research programs such as TOGA, WOCE, and JGOFS. Coupled numerical models of the oceanic and atmospheric circulation constitute the basis of every climate simulation. Increasingly it is recog­ nized that in addition a biological/chemical component is necessary to capture the pathways of carbon and other trace gases. The development of such coupled models is a challenging task which needs scientists who must be cognizant of several other disciplines beyond their own specialty.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institut für Meereskunde, Universität Kiel, Kiel, Germany

    Jürgen Willebrand

  • Department of Atmospheric Physics, Clarendon Laboratory, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

    David L. T. Anderson

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