The ocean's role in climate change / by Alexander Polonsky.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Polonski, Alexander, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Climatic changes.

Genre:

Libros electrónicos.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (290 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle Upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, [2019]

Summary:

The principal focus of this book is the physical processes in the World Ocean which regulate the interannual-to-multidecadal natural variability of the climate system, and some key atmospheric and marine manifestations of this variability. It analyses a number of Atlantic and Indo-Pacific signals, and describes their regional atmospheric and marine manifestations. The role of the Ocean in the recent hiatus of global warming and the probability of abrupt climate change due to thermohaline catastrophe are also assessed. The book pays special attention to the change of parameters of synoptic atmospheric disturbances over the Northern Hemisphere and its sub-regions in different phases of the natural quasi-periodical climatic signals. It will appeal to oceanographers, climatologists, meteorologists, hydrologist, geographers and the general reader interested in the problem of climate change all over the globe, especially with regards to Eastern Europe and the Black Sea region.

Contents:

Intro

Table of Contents

Abbreviations and Designations

Introduction

Chapter I

1.1 Set of Thermo/Hydrodynamic Equations for the Ocean

1.2 Basic Physical Properties of Sea Water and Atmospheric Air Important for Climate Change

1.3 Heat Balance of the Atmosphere. Buoyancy and Momentum Fluxes at the Ocean's Surface

1.4 General Oceanic Circulation

Chapter II

2.1 Global Warming caused by Anthropogenic Greenhouse Effects

2.2 Climatic Scenarios

2.3 Principal Extratropical Atlantic Teleconnection Patterns

2.3.1 North Atlantic Oscillation

2.3.2 Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation

2.3.3 Impact of the NAO and AMO on the Characteristics of Cyclones in the Atlantic-Eurasian Region

2.3.4 Impact of Natural Low-frequency Variability in the North Atlantic on Climate Anomalies around the Globe and the Northern Hemisphere

2.3.5 Mechanisms Regulating the Interannual-to-interdecadal Variability of the UML Temperature of Advective Origin in the North Atlantic

2.4 Thermohaline Catastrophe

2.5 Principal Pacific and Indian Ocean Teleconnection Patterns and their Impact on the Meteorological Fields of the Northern Hemisphere

2.5.1 El Niño-Southern Oscillation and its Impact on the Meteorological Field of the Northern Hemisphere

2.5.2 Pacific Decadal Oscillation and its Impact on the Meteorological Fields of the Northern Hemisphere

2.5.3 Indo-ocean Dipole and its Impact on the Eurasian Meteorological Fields

Chapter III

3.1. Variability of Black Sea Cyclones and Anticyclones Associated with North Atlantic Signals

3.2 Low-frequency Variability of Storms in the Coastal Zone of the Northern Black Sea

3.2.1 Low-frequency Variability of Wind-wave Anom

3.2.2 Frequency of Stormy Events occurring in the Coastal Zone of the Northern Black Sea.

3.2.3 Links between Low-frequency Variability of the Monthly WA in the Black Sea Region with Global Processes in the Coupled Ocean-atmosphere System

3.2.4 Classification of Macro-synoptic Processes of Stormy Events

3.3 Acidification of the Black Sea Upper Layer in the 20th Century

3.4 Low-frequency Variability of Dissolved Oxygen and the Temperature of the Surface Layer of the Black Sea

3.4.1 Seasonal Variability

3.4.2 Interdecadal Variability and Trends

3.5 Variability of the Spring Danube Discharge and its Prediction using Large-scale Atmospheric Indices

3.5.1 Variability of the Danube Discharge and its Forecast for May

3.5.2 Decadal-scale Variability and the Stability of the Established Relations

3.6 Decadal-scale Variations of the Seasonal Cycle of Geostrophic Circulation in the Black Sea

3.6.1 Mean Seasonal Variations

3.6.2 Long-Term Variations of Geostrophic Circulation

Conclusions

References

Appendix.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-5275-3487-1

OCLC:

1117370063