Mark C. Serreze, Roger G. Barry

The Arctic Climate System

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This second edition provides a completely up-to-date, scientifically rigorous yet highly accessible overview of Arctic climate science, for advanced students and researchers.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 450
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 183mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 1037g
• ISBN-13: 9781107037175
• ISBN-10: 1107037174
• Artikelnr.: 41120281

Autorenporträt

Mark C. Serreze is the Director of the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), part of the Cooperative Institute for Environmental Sciences (CIRES) at the University of Colorado Boulder. He is also a fellow of CIRES and a Professor in the Department of Geography. His Arctic research interests are wide-ranging, and include atmosphere-sea ice interactions, synoptic climatology, hydro-climatology, boundary layer problems, numerical weather prediction, and climate change. Dr Serreze has conducted fieldwork in the Canadian Arctic on sea ice and ice caps, and on the Alaskan tundra.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The evolution of knowledge about the Arctic and its climate
2. Physical characteristics and basic climate features
3. The basic atmospheric and ocean energy budgets
4. The atmospheric circulation
5. Energy exchanges at the surface
6. Precipitation, net precipitation, and river discharge
7. Arctic ocean-sea ice-climate interactions
8. Climate regimes of the Arctic
9. Modeling the Arctic climate system
10. Arctic paleoclimates
11. The uncertain future.