A state-of-the-art examination of oceanography, meteorology, and environmental sciences, including recent advances in experimental and theoretical investigations of ocean-atmosphere interactions.
Preface; 1. Preliminary information; 2. Present state of the climatic system; 3. Small-scale ocean--atmosphere interaction; 4. Mesoscale ocean--atmosphere interaction; 5. Large-scale ocean--atmosphere interaction; 6. Response of the ocean--atmosphere system to external forcing; References; Index.
...this book will be a valuable asset to climate modelers and to serious graduate students of this controversial arena. Elmar R. Reiter, Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics "I recommend that a library possess this book...since there is no other book on the subject." Edward S. Sarachik, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society "This book should prove valuable to graduate students, and interesting to specialists in the field." Zbigniew Sorbjan, PAGEOPH