Book description
The Atmosphere and Ocean
is a fully revised and updated student friendly physical introduction
to the atmosphere and ocean. Now in its Third Edition
, the book continues to provide students with an accessible description
of the atmosphere and ocean with emphasis on their physical properties
and inter-dependence.
Clearly structured throughout, the book
demonstrates that the atmosphere and ocean are both subject to the
influence of the earth's rotation and therefore they have a common
dynamical basis. The author clearly demonstrates the fundamental
differences between the two environments and provides the reader with
a much better understanding of the atmosphere and the ocean and an
appreciation of their closest interactive relationship. There have
been many developments in the field over the past ten years and this
latest edition of a highly successful textbook brings together new
material on the ocean-atmosphere system and climate, the observed
circulation of the atmosphere and ocean and radiation in the
atmosphere and ocean.
- Fully revised and updated 3rd Edition of student friendly physical
introduction to the atmosphere and ocean.
- Now includes new chapters on observed circulation of the
atmosphere and ocean, energy flows in the ocean atmosphere system,
modeling the ocean and atmosphere, the ocean atmosphere system and
climate.
- Well structured and written in an authoritative yet accessible
style suitable for 2nd and 3rd year students taking courses in
meteorology, oceanography and related Earth Sciences or as an
introduction for graduate students.
- Emphasis placed on physical properties and inter-dependence of the
ocean and climate.
- Part of the RMetS (Royal Meteorological Society) book series,
Advancing Weather and Climate Science
Dr Neil Wells
is a lecturer in the Oceanography department at Southampton University
in ocean modeling, climate and sea air interaction. Research in, large
scale ocean modelling with interests in heat fluxes and heat content
change. (ii) Application of ARGO data sets to determine ocean heat
content change. (iii) Links of above with air-sea interaction from
seasonal to decadal change. (iv) Storm surges and tidal interaction in
coastal seas and relationship to climate change.
