The Arctic climate system / Mark C. Serreze, Roger G. Barry

Author:: Serreze, Mark C.
Published:: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Physical Description:: xvii, 385 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Additional Creators:: Barry, Roger G. (Roger Graham), 1935-

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Series:

Cambridge atmospheric and space science series

Contents:

THE EVOLUTION OF KNOWLEDGE ABOUT THE ARCTIC AND ITS CLIMATE: Historical exploration -- The beginning of systematic observations -- The modem era -- PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS AND BASIC CLIMATIC FEATURES: The Arctic ocean -- The Arctic lands -- Basic climatic elements -- THE BASIC ATMOSPHERIC HEAT BUDGET: The Arctic and the global heat budget -- The basic Arctic heat budget -- Further analysis of Fwall -- THE ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION: Historical perspective -- The stratospheric circulation -- The Arctic tropopausc -- The mid-tropospheric circulation -- Surface and near-surface circulation -- Polar Lows -- THE SURFACE ENERGY BUDGET: The energy balance equations -- The downward solar radiation flux -- Surface albedo -- Longwave radiation fluxes -- Distribution of net radiation -- Cloud radiative forcing -- Radiation fluxes from surface observations: examples from SHEBA -- Partitioning of net radiation -- Skin temperature, SAT and vertical structure -- Radiation-climate feedbacks -- PRECIPITATION, NET PRECIPITATION AND RIVER DISCHARGE: Precipitation -- Evapo-transpiration and net precipitation -- Mean annual cycles for the major terrestrial drainages -- River discharge and runoff -- ARCTIC OCEAN-SEA ICE-CLIMATE INTERACTIONS: Sea ice formation, growth and melt -- Mean circulation, ice zones and concentration -- Sea ice motion -- Examples of large-scale ocean-sea ice-climate interactions -- The Fram Strait outflow and the thermohaline circulation -- CLIMATE REGIMES OF THE ARCTIC: The Greenland Ice Sheet -- Polar desert -- Maritime Arctic -- Central Arctic Ocean -- Mountains and uplands -- Urban modifications of local climate -- MODELING THE ARCTIC CLIMATE SYSTEM: General model types -- Single-column models -- Land surface models -- Sea ice and ice-ocean models -- Global climate models -- Regional climate models -- Numerical weather prediction models -- Ecosystem models -- Summary of model errors -- ARCTIC PALEOCLIMATES: The distant past -- Paleoclimate records for the Quaternary -- Features of the Quaternary -- Rapid climate shifts -- Regional aspects of the LGM -- Deglaciation -- The Holocene -- RECENT CLIMATE VARIABILITY, TRENDS AND THE FUTURE: Setting the stage -- Summary of observed variability and change -- The NAO and AO -- The NAO/ AO framework: merits and shortcomings -- Related multiyear climate variability.

Subject(s):

Arctic regions—Climate

ISBN:

0521814189 (hbk.)

Bibliography Note:

Includes web resources.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-376) and index.

Source of Acquisition:

University Park copy: Purchased for Student 3,000 hours awards - Rachel Storer; 2006.

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