Call number:
AWI A3-95-0119
In:
Cambridge atmospheric and space science series
Type of Medium:
Monograph available for loan
Pages:
XIII, 377 S.
Edition:
1. publ.
ISBN:
0521444454
Series Statement:
Cambridge atmospheric and space science series [11]
Language:
English
Note:
Contents:
Preface. -
1 Preliminary information. -
1.1 Definition of the climatic system. -
1.2 Scales of temporal variability and its mechanisms. -
1.3 Predictability and non-uniqueness. -
1.4 Methods of experimental research. -
1.4.1 Ground-based measurements. -
1.4.2 Satellite measurements. -
2 Present state of the climatic system. -
2.1 Initial information. -
2.2 Mass budget. -
2.3 Heat budget. -
2.4 Moisture budget. -
2.5 Energy budget. -
2.6 Angular momentum budget. -
2.7 Carbon budget. -
3 Small-scale ocean-atmosphere interaction. -
3.1 Surface atmospheric layer. -
3.2 Vertical distribution of the mean velocity over an immovable smooth surface: viscous sublayer; logarithmic boundary layer. -
3.3 Vertical distribution of the mean velocity over an immovable rough surface: roughness parameter; hydrodynamic classification of underlying surfaces. -
3.4 Hydrodynamic properties of the sea surface. -
3.5 Wind-wave interaction. -
3.6 Vertical distribution of the temperature and passive admixture over an immovable surface. -
3.7 Coefficients of resistance, heat exchange and evaporation for the sea surface. -
3.8 The Monin-Obukhov similarity theory. -
3.9 Transformation of the thermal regime of the surface atmospheric layer in the presence of wind-wave interaction. -
3.10 Methods for estimating surface fluxes of momentum heat and humidity. -
3.11 Methods for estimating C02 flux at the ocean-atmosphere interface. -
3.12 Features of small-scale ocean- atmosphere interaction under storm conditions. -
4 Mesoscale ocean-atmosphere interaction. -
4.1 The planetary boundary layer. -
4.2 Problem of closure. -
4.2.1 First-order closure. -
4.2.2 Second-order closure. -
4.3 Laws of resistance and heat and humidity exchange. -
4.4 System of planetary boundary layers of the ocean and atmosphere. -
4.4.1 Theoretical models using a priori information on the magnitude and profile of the eddy viscosity coefficient. -
4.4.2 Simplest closed models. -
4.4.3 Semiempirical models not using a priori information on the magnitude and profile of the eddy viscosity coefficient. -
5 Large-scale ocean-atmosphere interaction. -
5.1 Classification of climatic system models. -
5.2 Similarity theory for global ocean-atmosphere interaction. -
5.3 Zero-dimensional models. -
5.4 One-dimensional models. -
5.5 0.5-dimensional (box) models. -
5.6 1.5-dimensional models. -
5.7 Two-dimensional (zonal) models. -
5.8 Three-dimensional models. -
5.9 ENSO as a manifestation of the inter-annual variability of the ocean-atmosphere system. -
6 Response of the ocean-atmosphere system to external forcing. -
6.1 Sensitivity of the climatic system: mathematical methods of analysis. -
6.2 Equilibrium response to a change in ocean-land area ratio. -
6.3 Equilibrium response to a change in the concentration of atmospheric CO2. -
6.4 Equilibrium response to a change in land surface albedo. -
6.5 Equilibrium response to a change in soil moisture content. -
6.6 Equilibrium response to a change in vegetative cover. -
6.7 Transient response to a change in the concentration of atmospheric CO2. -
References. -
Index.
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Aus d. Russ. übers.
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