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Oceanic Circulation Models: Combining Data and Dynamics

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Editors:
  1. David L. T. Anderson

    1. Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics, Oxford University, Oxford, UK

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  2. Jürgen Willebrand

    1. Institut für Meereskunde, Universität Kiel, Kiel, Germany

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Part of the book series: Nato Science Series C: (ASIC, volume 284)

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiii
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  2. Tracer Inverse Problems

    • Carl Wunsch
    Pages 1-77

  3. A Geometrical Interpretation of Inverse Problems

    • Dirk Olbers
    Pages 79-93

  4. Determining Diffusivities from Hydrographic Data by Inverse Methods with Applications to the Circumpolar Current

    • Dirk Olbers, Manfred Wenzel
    Pages 95-139

  5. Ocean Acoustic Tomography: A Primer

    • Robert A. Knox
    Pages 141-188

  6. The Circulation in the Western North Atlantic Determined by a Nonlinear Inverse Method

    • Herlé Mercier
    Pages 189-201

  7. Altimeter Data Assimilation into Ocean Circulation Models — Some Preliminary Results

    • William R. Holland
    Pages 203-231

  8. Assimilation of Data into Ocean Models

    • D. J. Webb
    Pages 233-256

  9. Driving of Non-Linear Time-Dependent Ocean Models by Observation of Transient Tracers—A Problem of Constrained Optimisation

    • Jens Schröter
    Pages 257-285

  10. Assimilation of XBT Data Using a Variational Technique

    • J. Sheinbaum, D. L. T. Anderson
    Pages 287-302

  11. The Role of Real-Time Four-Dimensional Data Assimilation in the Quality Control, Interpretation, and Synthesis of Climate Data

    • A. Hollingsworth
    Pages 303-343

  12. Introduction to Chemical Tracers of the Ocean Circulation

    • J.-F. Minster
    Pages 345-376

  13. On Oceanic Boundary Conditions for Tritium, on Tritiugenic 3He, and on the Tritium-3He Age Concept

    • Wolfgang Roether
    Pages 377-407

  14. Ocean Carbon Models and Inverse Methods

    • Berrien Moore III, Bert Bolin, Anders Björkström, Kim Holmén, Chris Ringo
    Pages 409-449

  15. Model of the Nutrient and Carbon Cycles in the North Atlantic an Application of Linear Programming Methods

    • Reiner Schlitzer
    Pages 451-463

  16. The Design of Numerical Models of the Ocean Circulation

    • K. Bryan
    Pages 465-500

  17. Instabilities and Multiple Steady States of the Thermohaline Circulation

    • Jochem Marotzke
    Pages 501-511

  18. Subgridscale Representation

    • Greg Holloway
    Pages 513-583

  19. Back Matter

    Pages 584-605
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About this book

This book which is the outcome of a NATO-Advanced Study Institute on Mod­ elling the Ocean Circulation and Geochemical Tracer Transport is concerned with using models to infer the ocean circulation. Understanding our climate is one of the major problems of the late twentieth century. The possible climatic changes resulting from the rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide and other trace gases are of primary interest and the ocean pla. ys a ma. jor role in determining the magnitude, temporal evolution and regional distribution of those changes. Because of the poor observational basis the ocean general circulation is not well understood. The World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE) which is now underway is an attempt to improve our knowledge of ocean dynamics and thermodynamics on global scales relevant to climate change. Despite those efforts, the oceanic data base is likely to remain scarce and it is crucial to use appropriate methods in order to extract the maximum amount of information from observations. The book contains a thorough analysis of methods to combine data of val'ious types with dynamical concepts, and to assimilate data directly into ocean models. The properties of geocl;temical tracers such as HC, He, Tritium and Freons and how they may be used to impose integral constraints on the ocean circulation are discussed.

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`In summary, the editors have assembled a rather well integrated collection of lectures... The book should be warmly recommended to anyone, wishing to enter this burgeoning oceanographic discipline.'
Pageoph 135 (1) 1991

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics, Oxford University, Oxford, UK

    David L. T. Anderson

  • Institut für Meereskunde, Universität Kiel, Kiel, Germany

    Jürgen Willebrand

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Oceanic Circulation Models: Combining Data and Dynamics

  • Editors: David L. T. Anderson, Jürgen Willebrand

  • Series Title: Nato Science Series C:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1013-3

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Kluwer Academic Publishers 1989

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-0394-7Published: 31 August 1989

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-6946-5Published: 12 February 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-1013-3Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 1389-2185

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXIII, 605

  • Topics: Oceanography, Earth Sciences, general, Real Functions, Atmospheric Sciences

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