By
John Marshall, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, U.S.A.
R. Alan Plumb, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, U.S.A.
Description
For advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students in atmospheric, oceanic, and climate science,
Atmosphere, Ocean and
Climate Dynamics is an introductory textbook on the circulations of the atmosphere and ocean and their interaction, with an
emphasis on global scales. It will give students a good grasp of what the atmosphere and oceans look like on the large-scale and why
they look that way. The role of the oceans in climate and paleoclimate is also discussed. The combination of observations, theory and
accompanying illustrative laboratory experiments sets this text apart by making it accessible to students with no prior training in meteorology
or oceanography.
Included in series
International Geophysics
Audience:
Undergraduate or master-course students in meteorology, oceanography and climatology are the main target.
