The oceans exert a vital moderating influence on the Earth's climate system. They provide inertia to the global climate, essentially acting as the pacemaker of climate variability and change, and they provide heat to high latitudes, keeping them habitable. Climate and the Oceans offers a short, self-contained introduction to the subject. This illustrated primer begins by briefly describing the world's climate system and ocean circulation and goes on to explain the important ways that the oceans influence climate. Topics covered include the oceans' effects on the seasons, heat transport between equator and pole, climate variability, and global warming. The book also features a glossary of terms, suggestions for further reading, and easy-to-follow mathematical treatments.
Climate and the Oceans is the first place to turn to get the essential facts about this crucial aspect of the Earth's climate system. Ideal for students and nonspecialists alike, this primer offers the most concise and up-to-date overview of the subject available.
- The best primer on the oceans and climate
- Succinct and self-contained
- Accessible to students and nonspecialists
- Serves as a bridge to more advanced material
Price: $39.00
Pages: 248
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Imprint: Princeton University Press
Series: Princeton Primers in Climate
Publication Date:
30 October 2011
ISBN: 9780691150284
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / General, Earth sciences, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Meteorology & Climatology, SCIENCE / Environmental Science (see also Chemistry / Environmental), SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Oceanography, Meteorology and climatology, Environmental science, engineering and technology, Oceanography (seas and oceans)
"This easy-to-read illustrated book, filled with both data and accessible mathematical equations demonstrating the impact of the oceans on the Earth's climate, offers practitioners and stakeholders' state-of-the-art scientific analysis of how the oceans and climate interact that is both user friendly to the non-expert yet scientifically rigorous enough as bridge material for graduate students as they grapple with the compelling field of climate science and oceanography. . . . These books at Princeton Primers in Climate are a superb resource to find meticulous, detailed, and clearly presented facts on climate change science."---Gabriel Thoumi, MongaBay.com
Geoffrey K. Vallis is professor and senior scientist in the Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Program and the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton University. He is the author of the standard graduate text Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics.
