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Contributors.. Acknowledgements.. Preface.. Part I.. The ocean's Role in the Climate System.. 1 The ocean as a component of the climate system.. 2 Paleoclimatic ocean circulation and sea level changes.. Part II.. Ocean Observations.. 3 In-situ ocean observations.. A brief history, present status and future directions.. 4 Remote sensing of the global ocean circulation.. Part III.. Ocean Processes.. 5 Exchanges through the ocean surface.. 6 Thermodynamics of seawater.. 7 Diapycnal mixing processes in the ocean interior.. 8 Lateral transport in the ocean interior.. 9 Global distribution and formation of mode waters.. 10 Deepwater formation.. Part IV.. Ocean Circulation and Water Masses.. 11 Conceptual models of the wind-driven and thermohaline circulation.. 12 Ocean surface circulation.. 13 Western boundary currents.. 14 Currents and processes along the eastern boundaries.. 15 The tropical ocean circulation and dynamics.. 16 The marine cryosphere.. 17 The Arctic and subarctic oceans/seas.. 18 Dynamics of the Southern Ocean circulation.. 19 Interocean and interbasin exchanges.. Part V.. Modeling the Ocean Climate System.. 20 Ocean circulation models and modeling.. 21 Dynamically and kinematically consistent global ocean circulation and ice state estimates.. 22 Methods and applications of ocean synthesis in climate research.. 23 Coupled models and climate projections.. 24 The oceans' role in modeling and predicting seasonal-to-interannual climate variations.. 25 The oceans' role in modeling and predicting decadal climate variations.. 26 Modeling ocean biogeochemical processes and resulting tracer distributions.. Part VI.. The Changing Ocean.. 27 Sea-level and ocean heat-content change.. 28 Long-term salinity changes and implications for the global water cycle.. 29 Ocean heat transport.. 30 The marine carbon cycle and ocean carbon inventories.. 31 Marine ecosystems, biogeochemistry, and climate.. Index

The second edition of Ocean Circulation and Climate is an up-to-date summary of the state of the science relating to the role of the oceans in the physical climate system. The book is structured to guide the reader through the analysis, interpretation, modeling, and synthesis of ocean climate phenomena, with extensive cross-referencing between chapters and a comprehensive index. This book will be of value to those interested in the global oceans, in climate variability and change, and in the oceanic uptake of anthropogenic carbon, particularly oceanographers, meteorologists, and other climate scientists. Inglés