Climate-Ocean Interaction

Preface This book is the culmination of a workshop jointly organized by NATO and CEC on Climate-Ocean Interaction which was held at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University during 26-30 September 1988. The objective of the ARW was to assess the current status of research on climate-ocean interaction, with a major focus on the development of coupled atmosphere-ocean-ice models and their application in the study of past, present and possible future climates. This book contains 16 chapters divided into four parts: Introduction; Observations of the Climate of the Ocean; Modelling the Atmospheric, Oceanic and Sea Ice Components of the Climatic System; and Simulating the Variability of Climate on Short, Medium and Long Time Scales. A fifth part contains the reports of the five Working Groups on: Climate Observations, Modelling, ENSO Modelling and Prediction, Climate-Ocean Interaction on TIme Scales of Decades to Centuries, and Impact of Paleoclimatic Proxy Data on Climate Modelling. Preface ix Acknowledgements I thank Howard Cattle and Neil Wells for their guidance and assistance as members of the Workshop Organizing Committee. I particularly thank Michael Davey for all his efforts as Local Organizer to make the ARW a success. I also thank the staff of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University, for their help with the arrangements for the ARW. Front Matter....Pages i-xvi Front Matter....Pages 1-1 The Ocean as a Component of the Climate System....Pages 3-17 Front Matter....Pages 19-19 Observed Variations of Sea Surface Temperature....Pages 21-52 Can Box Ocean Models Calibrated by Inverse Methods Provide a Means of Testing Ocean Circulation Models?....Pages 53-64 Front Matter....Pages 65-65 General Circulation Modelling of the Atmosphere....Pages 67-86 An Ocean Modelling System for Supercomputer Architectures of the 1990s....Pages 87-95 Modelling Sea Ice for Climate Studies....Pages 97-123 Front Matter....Pages 125-125 Interannual Variability in Coupled Tropical Atmosphere-Ocean Models....Pages 127-159 Predictability of ENSO....Pages 161-171 ENSO Modelling at MPI....Pages 173-191 Specification and Variability of the Surface Forcing of the Ocean....Pages 193-210 Ocean Models and the Inter-Basin Transport of Heat....Pages 211-224 Extratropical Response to SST Anomalies and the Barotropic Model....Pages 225-232 Modelling of Geochemical Tracers in the Ocean....Pages 233-267 Diapycnal Mixing....Pages 269-293 Climatic Change and Ocean Bottom Water Formation: Are We Missing Something?....Pages 295-317 Reconstruction of Low and Middle Latitude Export Productivity, 30,000 Years BP to Present: Implications for Global Carbon Reservoirs....Pages 319-342 Global Estimation of Oceanic Eddy Transports from Satellite Altimetry?....Pages 343-349 Front Matter....Pages 351-351 Working Group 1: Climate Observations....Pages 353-360 Working Group 2: Modelling....Pages 361-363 Working Group 3: ENSO Modelling and Prediction....Pages 365-369 Front Matter....Pages 351-351 Working Group 4: Climate-Ocean Interaction on Time Scales of Decades to Centuries....Pages 371-373 Working Group 5: Impact of Paleoclimatic Proxy Data on Climate Modeling....Pages 375-377 Back Matter....Pages 379-385