| Description |
xii, 292 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm |
| Contents |
1. The global energy and water cycles -- 1.1. The global energy cycle / Richard D. Rosen -- 1.2. The global water cycle / Taikan Oki -- 2. Global atmospheric models, data assimilation, and applications to the energy and water cycles -- 2.1. Atmospheric models for weather prediction and climate simulations / Eugenia Kalnay -- 2.2. Numerical approximations for global atmospheric models / David Williamson -- 2.3. Parameterization of subgrid-scale processes / Hua-lu Pan -- 2.4. Principles of data assimilation / Milija Zupanski and Eugenia Kalnay -- 2.5. Estimation of the global energy and water cycle from global data assimilation / Glenn White and Suranjana Saha -- 2.6. Coupled atmosphere-ocean modeling for climate simulation and prediction / Ming Ji and Arun Kumar -- 3. Atmospheric processes and their large-scale effects -- 3.1. Radiative effects of clouds and water vapor / Grame L. Stephens -- 3.2. Effects of aerosols on clouds and radiation / Peter V. Hobbs -- 3.3. Vertical transport processes / T. Hauf and S. Brinkop -- 3.4. Precipitating cloud systems / Peter Jonas -- 4. Surface and sub-surface processes -- 4.1. Estimating surface precipitation / D. Rosenfeld and C. G. Collier -- 4.2. Air-sea fluxes and their estimation / Peter K. Taylor and Kristina B. Katsaros -- 4.3. The ocean's response to the freshwater cycle / Raymond W. Schmitt -- 4.4. Physical and physiological feedback constraining evaporation from land surfaces / J. L. Monteith -- 4.5. Soil water / P. J. Gregory -- 4.6. Surface runoff and subsurface redistribution of water / Eric F. Wood -- 5. Use of small-scale models and observational data to investigate coupled processes -- 5.1. Mesoscale field experiments and models / Jean-Claude Andre, Joel Noilhan and Jean-Paul Goutorbe -- 5.2. Cloud-resolving models / M. W. Moncrieff and W.-K. Tao -- 6. Examples of the use of GCMs to investigate effects of coupled processes -- 6.1. The interaction of convective and turbulent fluxes in general circulation models / David Gregory, Andrew Bushell and Andrew Brown -- 6.2. Soil moisture-precipitation interaction: experience with two land surface schemes in the ECMWF model / Anton C. M. Beljaars and Pedro Viterbo -- 7. Continental-scale water budgets -- 7.1. Estimating evaporation-minus-precipitations as a residual of the atmospheric water budget / Kevin E. Trenberth and Christian J. Guillemot -- 7.2. Factors determining the partitioning of precipitation into evaporation and runoff / P. C. D. Milly -- 7.3. The water budget of a middle latitude continental region: a modeling and observational study / Peter Rowntree -- 7.4. Estimating large scale run-off / E. Todini and L. Dumenil -- 8. The way forward -- 8.1. Toward an integrated land-atmosphere-ocean hydrology / Moustafa T. Chahine |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references page 286 |
| Subject |
Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment.
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Energy budget (Geophysics)
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Hydrologic cycle.
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| Author |
Browning, K. A.
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Gurney, R. J. (Robert J.)
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| LC no. |
98004546 |
| ISBN |
0521560578 hb |
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