Marine Climate Change
Subtitle: Ocean Waves, Storms and Surges in the Perspective of Climate Change (Springer Praxis Books / Environmental Sciences)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: October 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9783540253167
Subjects: Geology & the lithosphere; Mathematics and Science; Science; Science/Mathematics; Climate change; Historical change; Marine weather; Ocean waves; Scenarios of climate change; Science / Geology; Storm surges; Storms; Earth Sciences - Geology
Description: Marine environmental conditions such as storms, storm surges and wave heights are directly experienced by, for example, off-shore operations or coastal populations. The authors review and bring together the state-of-the-art and present day knowledge about historical changes, recent trends and concepts on how marine environmental conditions may change in the future as well as discuss models and data problems.
Notes: contents:

Climate and climate variability. Introduction -- Definition of climate -- The climate system -- Climate variability -- Marine weather phenomena -- Introduction -- Mid-latitude storms and storm tracks -- Tropical cyclones -- Wind-generated waves -- Tides, storm surges, and mean sea level -- Models for the marine environment. Introduction -- Quasi-realistic modeling -- Climate models -- Wind wave models -- Tide-surge models -- How to determine long-term changes in marine climate -- Introduction -- Problems with data quality -- Proxy data -- Global reanalyses and regional reconstructions -- Regionalization techniques -- Scenarios and projections -- Detection and attribution -- Past and future changes in wind, wave, and storm surge climates. Introduction -- Mid-latitude cyclones and storm tracks -- Tropical cyclones -- Wind-generated waves -- Tides, storm surges, and mean sea level -- Mean sea level -- 

Appendix A.1 : scale analysis -- Appendix A.2 : geostrophic wind -- Appendix A.3 : geopotential height and pressure as vertical coordinates -- Appendix A.4 : thermal wind -- Appendix A.5 : list of symbols -- Appendix A.6 : references.