New book on the oceans

The new edition plunges to the depth on the role of the ocean in physical climate system. But it is more than a review of the old book, as all texts are new productions. The new edition has the subtitle "A 21. Century perspective" and "provides an up-to-date summary of the state of the science relating to the role of the oceans in the physical climate system", as Elsevier states it.

Over 900 pages the book the writers goes into the role of the ocean on many perspectives, in a range from paleoclimatic ocean circulation and sea level changes, to remote seining of the global ocean circulation, to thermodynamics of the seawater, the marine cryosphere, to coupled models and climate projections - to mention some parts of the book.

For Christoph Heinze, professor of chemical oceanography at UoB and The Bjerknes Centre, the book means half a year of work. He has written the chapter "”Modeling ocean biogeochemichal processes and resulting tracer distributions” in cooperation with Marion Gehlen from Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de L'Environnement UMR CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, Gif-sur-Yvette, France.

"The book should be easy to understand for educated readers interdisciplinary and will be interesting for people from many different disciplines", Christoph Heinze says.


Referance
Siedler, Griffies, Gould, Church, Ocean Circulation and Climate, 2nd Edition. A 21st century perspective, Elsevier (2013)