Keywords:
Marine meteorology.
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Marine meteorology -- Social aspects.
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Climatic changes -- Social aspects.
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Climatic changes -- Environmental aspects.
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Climatic changes -- Detection.
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Electronic books.
Description / Table of Contents:
Focusing on changes in the marine environment, this book provides a comprehensive description of methods and concepts upon which modern climate change reconstructions and plausible future scenarios are built. The authors also discuss models and data problems.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (246 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9783540684916
Series Statement:
Springer Praxis Bks.
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/geomar/detail.action?docID=603169
DDC:
551.509162
Language:
English
Note:
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Figures -- Tables -- Abbreviations and acronyms -- 1 Climate and climate variability -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Definition of climate -- 1.3 The climate system -- 1.3.1 Components of the climate system -- 1.3.2 General circulation of the atmosphere -- 1.3.3 General circulation of the oceans -- 1.4 Climate variability -- 1.4.1 Internally driven and externally forced variability -- 1.4.2 Interplay between regional and planetary climate -- 1.5 Summary -- 1.6 References -- 2 Marine weather phenomena -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Mid-latitude storms and storm tracks -- 2.3 Tropical cyclones -- 2.4 Wind-generated waves -- 2.4.1 Introduction -- 2.4.2 Long and short-term variations of the sea state -- 2.4.3 Freak or rogue waves -- 2.5 Tides, storm surges, and mean sea level -- 2.5.1 Storm surges -- 2.5.2 Tides -- 2.5.3 Mean sea level -- 2.6 Summary -- 2.7 References -- 3 Models for the marine environment -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Quasi-realistic modeling -- 3.3 Climate models -- 3.3.1 General circulation models -- 3.3.2 Global climate models -- 3.3.3 Regional climate models -- 3.4 Wind wave models -- 3.4.1 The wave spectrum -- 3.4.2 Equation for wave energy -- 3.4.3 Frequently used parameters to describe the sea state -- 3.5 Tide-surge models -- 3.5.1 Shallow-water equations -- 3.5.2 Performance of tide-surge models -- 3.6 Summary -- 3.7 References -- 4 How to determine long-term changes in marine climate -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Problems with data quality -- 4.2.1 Data homogeneity -- 4.2.2 Data availability -- 4.2.3 Operational weather analyses and other derived data sets -- 4.3 Proxy data -- 4.4 Global reanalyses and regional reconstructions -- 4.4.1 Can climate trends be estimated from reanalysis data? -- 4.4.2 The NCEP/NCAR Global Reanalysis -- 4.4.3 Other global reanalyses.
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4.4.4 Regional reanalyses and reconstructions -- 4.5 Regionalization techniques -- 4.6 Scenarios and projections -- 4.7 Detection and attribution -- 4.7.1 The detection problem -- 4.7.2 The attribution problem -- 4.7.3 Trends and detection -- 4.8 Summary -- 4.9 References -- 5 Past and future changes in wind, wave, and storm surge climates -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Mid-latitude cyclones and storm tracks -- 5.2.1 Past changes and variability -- 5.2.2 Future changes -- 5.3 Tropical cyclones -- 5.3.1 Past changes and variability -- 5.3.2 Future changes -- 5.4 Wind-generated waves -- 5.4.1 Past changes and variability -- 5.4.2 Future changes -- 5.5 Tides, storm surges, and mean sea level -- 5.5.1 Mean sea level -- 5.5.2 Storm surges -- 5.5.3 Tides -- 5.6 Summary -- 5.7 References -- Appendices -- A.l Scale analysis -- A.2 Geostrophic wind -- A.3 Geopotential height and pressure as vertical coordinates -- A.4 Thermal wind -- A.5 List of symbols -- A.6 References -- Index.
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