Coupled Atmosphere-Ocean Dynamics
From El Nino to Climate Change
- 1st Edition - December 21, 2022
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Author: Shang-Ping Xie
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 5 4 9 0 - 7
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 5 4 9 1 - 4
Coupled Atmosphere-Ocean Dynamics of Climate Variability and Climate Change presents the patterns, mechanisms, and predictability of climate variability and anthropogenic climate c… Read more
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Request a sales quoteCoupled Atmosphere-Ocean Dynamics of Climate Variability and Climate Change presents the patterns, mechanisms, and predictability of climate variability and anthropogenic climate change. Based on a graduate course the author has taught over 25 years, this book provides the physical foundation for those who are interested in fundamental questions such as: why climate varies from one year to another; how predictable climate is; and how climate will change in the face of increasing greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. This is the first comprehensive and systematic treatment of this subject that simultaneously draws on the latest research and is accessible for graduate students.
The book takes a step-by-step systematic approach to coupled ocean-atmosphere interactions. This allows a wide range of comparative views: climate modes among and across different tropical ocean basins, ocean feedback on the atmosphere (in and out of the tropics), and spontaneous internal oscillation versus externally forced climate change. Such comparative views offer unprecedented insight into the dynamics of climate variability and predictability. This book can be used as supplementary reading for advanced undergraduate students, as coursework in climate dynamics, modeling, variability, and change, and as a reference book and research monograph for researchers in ocean, atmospheric, climate, and earth system sciences.
- Delivers the first authored textbook on ocean-atmosphere interactions that give rise to climate variability/predictability and shape regional patterns of anthropogenic climate change
- Contains historical accounts of major breakthroughs in the field
- Includes homework questions, helping to reinforce key concepts and applications
Graduate and upper-division undergraduate students including meteorologists, oceanographers, atmospheric/climate scientists, climate/earth system modelers Earth system science, environmental science/engineering, geoscience, geography, agriculture, economics. The interest in climate extends far beyond the atmospheric/ocean/climate sciences community
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Chapter 1. Introduction
- 1.1. Role of the Ocean in Climate
- 1.2. Climate in the News
- 1.3. Fundamentals
- 1.4. General Circulation Models
- 1.5. Statistical Methods
- Chapter 2. Energy balance and transport
- 2.1. Planetary energy balance and greenhouse effect
- 2.2. Radiative imbalance and energy transport
- 2.3. Ocean heat transport
- 2.4. Atmospheric energy transport
- Review questions
- Chapter 3. Tropical convection and planetary-scale circulation
- 3.1. Water vapor budget
- 3.2. Ocean temperature effect on convection
- 3.3. Latent heat release in convection
- 3.4. Equatorial waves
- 3.5. Planetary-scale circulation
- 3.6. Weak temperature gradient and convective threshold
- 3.7. Outlook
- Review questions
- Chapter 4. Madden-Julian oscillation
- 4.1. Convectively coupled waves
- 4.2. Madden-Julian oscillation
- 4.3. Moisture mode theory
- Review questions
- Chapter 5. Summer Monsoons
- 5.1. South Asian monsoon
- 5.2. East Asian monsoon
- 5.3. Asian summer monsoon system
- 5.4. West African monsoon
- 5.5. North American monsoon
- 5.6. Global monsoon
- 5.7. Discussion
- Review questions
- Chapter 6. Subtropical climate: Trade winds and low clouds
- 6.1. Trade wind climate
- 6.2. Cloud-regime transition
- 6.3. Climate feedback
- 6.4. California climate
- Review questions
- Chapter 7. Equatorial oceanography
- 7.1. Dynamical models
- 7.2. Ocean response to wind stress forcing
- 7.3. Mixed-layer heat budget
- Review questions
- Chapter 8. Coupled feedbacks and tropical climatology
- 8.1. Meridional asymmetry
- 8.2. Equatorial cold tongue and Walker circulation
- 8.3. Equatorial annual cycle
- Review questions
- Chapter 9. El Niño, the Southern Oscillation, and the global influence
- 9.1. 1997-1998 El Niño
- 9.2. Bjerknes feedback
- 9.3. Mechanisms for oscillation
- 9.4. Life cycle
- 9.5. Global influences
- 9.6. Barotropic stationary waves in the westerlies
- 9.7. Seasonal prediction
- 9.8. Summary remarks
- Review questions
- Chapter 10. Tropical Atlantic variability
- 10.1. Seasonal cycle
- 10.2. Zonal mode: Atlantic Niño
- 10.3. Meridional mode
- 10.4. Interactions with the Pacific
- 10.5. Climate modulation of tropical cyclones
- 10.6. Summary
- Review questions
- Chapter 11. Indian Ocean variability
- 11.1. Seasonal cycle
- 11.2. Zonal mode: Indian Ocean dipole
- 11.3. Basin mode
- 11.4. Post-ENSO summer capacitor effect
- 11.5. Asian summer monsoon variability
- 11.6. Synthesis
- Review questions
- Chapter 12. Extratropical variability and the influence on the tropics
- 12.1. Atmospheric internal variability
- 12.2. Atmospheric forcing of SST: Lagged correlation diagnosis
- 12.3. Ocean dynamic effects
- 12.4. Extratropical influence on tropical climate
- 12.5. Deep meridional overturning circulation
- 12.6. Summary remarks
- Review questions
- Chapter 13. Global Warming: Thermodynamic Effects
- 13.1. Climate feedback analysis
- 13.2. Global warming hiatus
- 13.3. Robust atmospheric changes due to thermodynamic effects
- 13.4. Surface acceleration of the subtropical ocean gyre
- 13.5. Discussion
- Review questions
- Chapter 14. Regional climate change
- 14.1. Regional patterns of tropical rainfall change
- 14.2. SST pattern dynamics
- 14.3. Regional uncertainty due to atmospheric circulation change
- 14.4. Ocean heat uptake
- 14.5. Aerosol effects
- 14.6. Historical climate change
- 14.7. Synthesis
- Review questions
- Epilogue
- References
- Index
- Edition: 1
- Published: December 21, 2022
- Imprint: Elsevier
- No. of pages: 432
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780323954907
- eBook ISBN: 9780323954914
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Shang-Ping Xie
Dr. Xie is the distinguished professor of climate science and Roger Revelle Chair at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, USA. He studies ocean-atmosphere interactions, climate variability and change. Dr. Xie is a lead author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fifth Assessment Report, an elected fellow of the American Geophysical Union and American Meteorological Society (AMS), and a Highly Cited Researcher (h-index=97) on the Web of Science. He received the AMS Sverdrup Gold Medal for “fundamental contributions to understanding the coupled ocean-atmosphere feedback processes involved in climate variability and climate change.” Scripps is one of the top institutes globally for Oceanography and is a target area for authors/ editors for the Oceanography program. Some of our top performing authors are from Scripps, including Lynne Talley, author of the bestselling Descriptive Physical Oceanography now in its 7th edition.
Affiliations and expertise
Distinguished Professor of Climate Science and Roger Revelle Chair, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, USARead Coupled Atmosphere-Ocean Dynamics on ScienceDirect