Atmospheric Oceanic General Circulation

The research published in this book uses the presently most comprehensive multicompartment model, the first which comprises a coupled atmosphere-ocean general circulation model (GCM). GCMs are the state-of-the-art tools used in climate research. The study is on the marine and total environmental distribution and fate of two chemicals, an obsolete pesticide (DDT) and an emerging contaminant (perflu-orinated compound) and contains the first description of a whole historic cycle of an anthropogenic substance, i.e. from the introduction into the environment until its fading beyond phase-out. 

Farley KA, Maier-Reimer E, Schlosser P, Broecker WS (1995) Constraints on mantle He fluxes and deep-sea circulation from an oceanic general circulation model. J Geophys Res 100(B3) 3829-3839 Farley KA, Love SG, Patterson DB (1997) Atmospheric entry heating arrd hehum retentivity of interplanetary dust particles. Geochim Cosmochim Acta 61 2309-2316 Farley KA, Montanari A, Shoemaker EM, Shoemaker CS (1998) Geochemical evidence for a comet shower in the Late Eocene. Science 280 1250-1253... 

Hydrodynamic models of the atmosphere on a grid or spectral resolution that determine the surface pressure and the vertical distributions of velocity, temperature, density, and water vapor as functions of time from the mass conservation and hydrostatic laws, the first law of thermodynamics, Newton s second law of motion, the equation of state, and the conservation law for water vapor. Abbreviated as GCM. Atmospheric general circulation models are abbreviated AGCM, while oceanic general circulation models are abbreviated OGCM. geomorphology... 

Ocean-Atmosphere Interactions. To determine how the ocean responds to a C02-induced climate forcing, it will be necessary to develop a combined ocean and atmospheric general circulation model. It will take 10-20 years to develop a model with appropriate chemistry and biology to the level of confidence necessary to make valid projections. In the interim, two approaches can be pursued in parallel with this model development. 

Fig. 17-1 The global climate system, (a) Energy fluxes, including incoming solar radiation, reflected radiation, emitted longwave radiation (from an effective altitude of ca. 6 km), and atmospheric and oceanic heat flux toward the polar regions, (b) The atmospheric circulation corresponding to part (a). Refer back to Fig. 7-4 and associated text for a discussion of the general circulation.

Models for processes in the environmental SYSTEM E.G. GENERAL CIRCULATION Model for Atmosphere and Ocean... 

Do changes in the general circulation of the atmosphere and ocean take place ... 

Cubasch, U., Voss, R., Hegerl, G. C., Waszkewitz, J., and Crowley, T. J. (1997). Simulatkrn of the influence of solar radiation variations on the global climate with an ocean-atmosphere general circulation model. Climate Dynamics 13, 757-767. 

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