Global Climatic Changes in Water and Heat Transfer-Accumulation Processes (Developments in Atmospheric Sciences) [Hardcover]

Serguei G. Dobrovolski (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0444889140 | ISBN-13: 978-0444889140 | Publication Date: June 1992

In this book global heat circulation is studied in connection with changes in large scale water transfer and accumulation processes. Special attention is given to stochastic regularities of the analyzed processes. Some deterministic approaches are also considered, whereby dynamic-stochastic models are used. This study in global heat and moisture circulation is based upon the following main aspects: - substantiation of the hypothesis of a two-scale separation of weather and climatic variables, which forms the basis of the stochastic theory of the climate system; - analysis of the probabilistic structure of changes in the characteristics of heat and moisture circulation in the intermediate and larger (more than 1 month) time scales; - study of regularities of anomalies in the characteristics of heat and moisture circulation in the atmosphere and hydrosphere for large regions through spatial statistic analysis and two-dimensional dynamic-stochastic models; - changes in the structure of temporal variations in stochastic models, under the conditions of modified spatial scales of the processes; - analysis of globally averaged characteristics, such as temperature of the atmosphere and oceans. The work does not claim to be an exhaustive study, but will be of considerable interest to researchers and students in the fields of atmospheric science, oceanography, global change and climate impact assessment.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 268 pages
• Publisher: Elsevier Science Ltd (June 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0444889140
• ISBN-13: 978-0444889140
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,879,226 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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