Overview
- Standard reference book with selected and easily retrievable data from the fields of physics and chemistry collected by acknowledged international scientists
- Also available online in www.springerLink.com
- http://www.landolt-boernstein.com
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Landolt-Börnstein: Numerical Data and Functional Relationships in Science and Technology - New Series (LANDOLT 3, volume 6)
Part of the book sub series: Geophysics (LANDOLT 5)
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Table of contents (49 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
The volume "Observed Global Climate" comprises a set of climate budget quantities, relevant for atmosphere and ocean (the "climate fluids") as well as for land and ice (the "climate solids"). Examples for budget quantities are temperature, salinity, wind, rain, radiation. They are displayed in standardised form for all climate subsystems.
The data are arranged around the budget principle which is basic for the entire climate system. The book demonstrates that budgeting is not only a useful principle but also that "budget-thinking" has practically become state of the art in modern quantitative climatology. Examples include the global water budget (consistency of the components better than 10%) and the global energy budget (consistency better than 5%).
The data are based on direct observations but have been subject to data assimilation. They are presented in gridded form and in form of maps and sections. The DVD carries the data, the original articles, figures in original colours, plus additional material like animations of the most important climate parameters and selected non-standard quantities. The gridded fields can be loaded by the user from the DVD into the personal computer.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Observed Global Climate
Editors: M. Hantel
Series Title: Landolt-Börnstein: Numerical Data and Functional Relationships in Science and Technology - New Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/b75667
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2005
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-20206-6Published: 08 June 2005
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-31376-2Published: 13 March 2007
Series ISSN: 1615-1844
Series E-ISSN: 1616-9522
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 575
Topics: Physics, general, Atmospheric Sciences