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Book An Adjoint Model for the Determination of the Mean Oceanic Circulation Air sea Fluxes und sic Mixing Coefficients

Download or read book An Adjoint Model for the Determination of the Mean Oceanic Circulation Air sea Fluxes und sic Mixing Coefficients written by Reiner Schlitzer and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Oceanic Circulation Models Combining Data and Dynamics

Download or read book Oceanic Circulation Models Combining Data and Dynamics written by D.L.T. Anderson and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book which is the outcome of a NATO-Advanced Study Institute on Mod elling the Ocean Circulation and Geochemical Tracer Transport is concerned with using models to infer the ocean circulation. Understanding our climate is one of the major problems of the late twentieth century. The possible climatic changes resulting from the rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide and other trace gases are of primary interest and the ocean pla. ys a ma. jor role in determining the magnitude, temporal evolution and regional distribution of those changes. Because of the poor observational basis the ocean general circulation is not well understood. The World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE) which is now underway is an attempt to improve our knowledge of ocean dynamics and thermodynamics on global scales relevant to climate change. Despite those efforts, the oceanic data base is likely to remain scarce and it is crucial to use appropriate methods in order to extract the maximum amount of information from observations. The book contains a thorough analysis of methods to combine data of val'ious types with dynamical concepts, and to assimilate data directly into ocean models. The properties of geocl;temical tracers such as HC, He, Tritium and Freons and how they may be used to impose integral constraints on the ocean circulation are discussed.

Book Residual Mean Analysis of the Air Sea Fluxes and Associated Oceanic Meridional Overturning

Download or read book Residual Mean Analysis of the Air Sea Fluxes and Associated Oceanic Meridional Overturning written by Pierre-Yves Dare and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dynamic response of the oceanic mixed-layer to the thermodynamic forcing at the sea surface is analyzed in order to describe the pattern of the oceanic meridional overturning. The technique proposed in this study is based on residual-mean theory, which takes into account the transport of buoyancy and tracers by transient eddies. From the observed air-sea density flux and mixed-layer density distributions, we estimate the two components of the Meridional Overturning Circulation (MOC) corresponding to the adiabatic (along-isopycnal) advection and the diabatic (cross-isopycnal) flux. Calculations are performed for the global ocean and, additionally, for each oceanic basin. The proposed method extends the Walin (1982) mass transformation theory, and permits, for the first time, assessment of the strength of the MOC adiabatic component from the sea surface data. This study offers a statistical description of the atmospheric and oceanic databases and gives some suggestions for the choice of specific datasets. In particular, the two most reliable atmospheric climatology databases (ECMWF and NCEP/NCAR re-analyses) are compared, and the impact of their inaccuracies on the MOC calculations is evaluated.

Book The Cumulative Book Index

Download or read book The Cumulative Book Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 2230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A world list of books in the English language.

Book Bibliographic Index

Download or read book Bibliographic Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 1096 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Parameterization of the Oceanic Mixed Layer for Use in General Circulation Models

Download or read book Parameterization of the Oceanic Mixed Layer for Use in General Circulation Models written by Robert C. Heald and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The behavior of different parameterizations of mixed layer physics when used in an oceanic general circulation model (OGCM) having coarse resolution of the upper ocean is examined. The method of parameterization is expected to have an important effect on the resulting sea surface temperature, and hence affect the model's overall fidelity from the viewpoint of air-sea interaction. Tests of three possible parameterizations differ in the manner in which the mixed layer depth is determined: predetermination, diagnostic determination, or prognostic determination. The sea surface temperature is taken to be equivalent to the top OGCM layer temperature in the first two methods, while it is found prognostically in the third method. Results show that for typical forcing cases such as strong insolation, weak surface cooling or weak winds, mixing is insufficient to cause heat transfer between the top two OGCM layers, which occupy the uppermost 500 m of the model. The predetermined and diagnostically determined mixed layer depth parameterizations reduce to a diffusive mixing parameterization, while the prognostic approach satisfactorily models mixed layer depths for all forcing cases. The prognostic method also agrees most closely with the results of a mixed layer model and with observations.

Book Numerical Methods in Atmospheric and Oceanic Modelling

Download or read book Numerical Methods in Atmospheric and Oceanic Modelling written by Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society and published by NRC Research Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of 27 invited refereed papers by scientists in the field of numerical modelling, this volume provides a comprehensive referecne for students and researchers of numerical weather prediction, climate simulation, dynamic meterology and ocean modelling."

Book Numerical Ocean Circulation Modeling

Download or read book Numerical Ocean Circulation Modeling written by Dale B. Haidvogel and published by World Scientific Publishing Company. This book was released on 1999 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book offers a comprehensive overview of the models and methods employed in the rapidly advancing field of numerical ocean circulation modeling. For those new to the field, concise reviews of the equations of oceanic motion, sub-grid-scale parameterization and numerical approximation techniques are presented. The extensive list of references make this book a valuable text for both graduate students and postdoctoral researchers in the marine sciences and in related fields, such as meteorology, climate and coupled biogeochemical modeling."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Book Ocean Circulation and Pollution Control A Mathematical and Numerical Investigation

Download or read book Ocean Circulation and Pollution Control A Mathematical and Numerical Investigation written by J. I. Díaz and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2004 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the framework of the Diderot Mathematical Forum (DMF) of the European Mathematical Society (EMS), December 19-20, 1997, a Videoconference was held linking three teams of specialists in Amsterdam, Madrid and Venice respectively. The general subject of this videoconference, the second one of the DMF series, was Mathematics and Environment and more specifically, Problems related to Water. This volume contains the texts of the Madrid site contributions with important, new and unpublished, examples on the modeling, mathematical and numerical analysis and treatment of the associated control problems of relevant questions arising in Oceanography and Environment.

Book Inverse Modeling of the Ocean and Atmosphere

Download or read book Inverse Modeling of the Ocean and Atmosphere written by Andrew F. Bennett and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-10-20 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inverse Modeling of the Ocean and Atmosphere is a graduate-level book for students of oceanography and meteorology, and anyone interested in combining computer models and observations of the hydrosphere or solid earth. A step-by-step development of maximally efficient inversion algorithms, using ideal models, is complemented by computer codes and comprehensive details for realistic models. Variational tools and statistical concepts are concisely introduced, and applications to contemporary research models, together with elaborate observing systems, are examined in detail. The book offers a review of the various alternative approaches, and further advanced research topics are discussed. Derived from the author's lecture notes, this book constitutes an ideal course companion for graduate students, as well as being a valuable reference source for researchers and managers in theoretical earth science, civil engineering and applied mathematics.

Book Global Data Assimilation Programme for Air sea Fluxes

Download or read book Global Data Assimilation Programme for Air sea Fluxes written by JSC/CCCO Working Group on Air-Sea Fluxes and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Mathematical Modelling of Ocean Circulation

Download or read book Mathematical Modelling of Ocean Circulation written by Guriĭ Ivanovich Marchuk and published by Springer. This book was released on 1988-10-05 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The problems of ocean dynamics present more and more com plex tasks for investigators, based on the continuously sophisti cation of theoretical models, which are applied with the help of universal and efficient algorithms of numerical mathematics. The present level of our knowledge in the field of mathemat ical physics and numerical mathematics allows one to give rather complete theoretical analysis of basic statements of problems as well as numerical algorithms. Our task is to perform such analy sis and also to analyze the results of calculations in order to improve our knowledge of the mechanism of large-scale hy drological processes occurring in the World Ocean. The new level of numerical mathematics has essentially influenced , the formation of new solution methods of ocean dynamics prob lems, among which an important one is the splitting method, which has been already widely practised in various fields of science and engineering. A number of monographs by N. N. Yanenko, A. A. Samarsky, G.!. Marchuk (Rozhdestvensky and Yanenko 1968; Samarsky and Andreyev 1976; Marchuk 1970, 1980b) and others are devoted to the description of this methods. But the methods of the splitting theory require extensive creative work for their application to concrete problems, which are peculiar, as a rule, in problem formulation. The success of the application of these methods is related to the deep understanding of the essence of the described processes. In the last decades fundamental works of Arakawa, K.

Book Numerical Modeling of Ocean Circulation

Download or read book Numerical Modeling of Ocean Circulation written by Robert N. Miller and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes ocean models for graduate students and researchers in oceanography, geophysics, climatology and atmospheric science.