Ocean Circulation and Climate: A 21 Century Perspective

Contributors
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Preface / Gerold Siedler, Stephen M. Griffies, John Gould, John A. Church

Part I: The Ocean's Role in the Climate System
Chapter 1 - The Ocean as a Component of the Climate System / Thomas F. Stocker
Chapter 2 - Paleoclimatic Ocean Circulation and Sea-Level Changes / Stefan Rahmstorf, Georg Feulner

Part II: Ocean Observations
Chapter 3 - In Situ Ocean Observations: A Brief History, Present Status, and Future Directions / John Gould, Bernadette Sloyan, Martin Visbeck
Chapter 4 - Remote Sensing of the Global Ocean Circulation / Lee-Lueng Fu, Rosemary Morrow

Part III: Ocean Processes
Chapter 5 - Exchanges Through the Ocean Surface / Simon A. Josey, Serge Gulev, Lisan Yu
Chapter 6 - Thermodynamics of Seawater / Trevor J. McDougall, Rainer Feistel, Rich Pawlowicz
Chapter 7 - Diapycnal Mixing Processes in the Ocean Interior / Jennifer MacKinnon, Lou St Laurent, Alberto C. Naveira Garabato
Chapter 8 - Lateral Transport in the Ocean Interior / B. Fox-Kemper, R. Lumpkin, F.O. Bryan
Chapter 9 - Global Distribution and Formation of Mode Waters / Kevin Speer, Gael Forget
Chapter 10 - Deepwater Formation / John L. Bullister, Monika Rhein, Cecilie Mauritzen

Part IV: Ocean Circulation and Water Masses
Chapter 11 - Conceptual Models of the Wind-Driven and Thermohaline Circulation / Sybren S. Drijfhout, David P. Marshall, Henk A. Dijkstra
Chapter 12 - Ocean Surface Circulation / Nikolai Maximenko, Rick Lumpkin, Luca Centurioni
Chapter 13 - Western Boundary Currents / Shiro Imawaki, Amy S. Bower, Lisa Beal, Bo Qiu
Chapter 14 - Currents and Processes along the Eastern Boundaries / P. Ted Strub, Vincent Combes, Frank A. Shillington, Oscar Pizarro
Chapter 15 - The Tropical Ocean Circulation and Dynamics / Swadhin Behera, Peter Brandt, Gilles Reversion
Chapter 16 - The Marine Cryosphere / David M. Holland
Chapter 17 - The Arctic and Subarctic Oceans/Seas / Cecilie Mauritzen, Bert Rudels, John Toole
Chapter 18 - Dynamics of the Southern Ocean Circulation / Stephen R. Rintoul, Alberto C. Naveira Garabato
Chapter 19 - Interocean and Interbasin Exchanges / Janet Sprintall, Gerold Siedler, Herlé Mercier

Part V: Modeling the Ocean Climate System
Chapter 20 - Ocean Circulation Models and Modeling / Stephen M. Griffies, Anne Marie Treguier
Chapter 21 - Dynamically and Kinematically Consistent Global Ocean Circulation and Ice State Estimates / Carl Wunsch, Patrick Heimbach
Chapter 22 - Methods and Applications of Ocean Synthesis in Climate Research / Andreas Schiller, Tong Lee, Shuhei Masada
Chapter 23 - Coupled Models and Climate Projections / Peter R. Gent
Chapter 24 - The Ocean’s Role in Modeling and Predicting Seasonal-to-Interannual Climate Variations / Ben P. Kirtman, Tim Stockdale, Robert Burgman
Chapter 25 - The Ocean's Role in Modeling and Predicting Decadal Climate Variations / Mojib Latif
Chapter 26 - Modeling Ocean Biogeochemical Processes and the Resulting Tracer Distributions / Christoph Heinze, Marion Gehlen

Part VI: The Changing Ocean
Chapter 27 - Sea-Level and Ocean Heat-Content Change / John A. Church, Neil J. White, Catia M. Domingues, Didier P. Monselesan, Elaine R. Miles
Chapter 28 - Long-term Salinity Changes and Implications for the Global Water Cycle / Paul J. Durack, Susan E. Wijffels, Tim P. Boyer
Chapter 29 - Ocean Heat Transport / Alison M. Macdonald, Molly O. Baringer
Chapter 30 - The Marine Carbon Cycle and Ocean Carbon Inventories / Toste Tanhua, Nicholas R. Bates, Arne Körtzinger
Chapter 31 - Marine Ecosystems, Biogeochemistry, and Climate / Scott C. Doney

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