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For advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students in atmospheric, oceanic, and climate science, Atmosphere, Ocean and Climate Dynamics is an introductory textbook on the circulations of the atmosphere and ocean and their interaction, with an emphasis on global scales. It will give students...
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Academic Press,
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| Publisher Address: | New York : |
| Publication Dates: | 1977. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
International geophysics series ;
v. 21 |
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| Online Access: |
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/bookseries/00746142/21 |
| Summary: |
For advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students in atmospheric, oceanic, and climate science, Atmosphere, Ocean and Climate Dynamics is an introductory textbook on the circulations of the atmosphere and ocean and their interaction, with an emphasis on global scales. It will give students a good grasp of what the atmosphere and oceans look like on the large-scale and why they look that way. The role of the oceans in climate and paleoclimate is also discussed. The combination of observations, theory and accompanying illustrative laboratory experiments sets this text apart by making it accessible to students with no prior training in meteorology or oceanography. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (xii, 557 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780124967502 0124967507 |
| Index Number: | GB661 |
| CLC: | P33 |
| Contents: | Atmospheric vapor flows and atmospheric storms -- Point rainfall : the delivery of water to an ecosystem -- Hydrologic storms -- Large-scale organization of rainfall -- Reception of water by ecosystems -- Water detained on the soil surface -- Infiltration of water into the soil of an ecosystem -- Soil moisture -- Evaporation from wet surfaces -- Evaporation from well-watered ecosystems -- Evaporation from drying ecosystems -- Water in the local air -- Percolation from ecosystems -- Groundwaterand its outflows into local ecosystems -- Surface transports from ecosystems -- Off-site yield of ecosystems -- Water in ecosystems. |