This book which is the outcome of a NATO-Advanced Study Institute
on Mod elling the Ocean Circulation and Geochemical Tracer
Transport is concerned with using models to infer the ocean
circulation. Understanding our climate is one of the major problems
of the late twentieth century. The possible climatic changes
resulting from the rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide and other
trace gases are of primary interest and the ocean pla. ys a ma. jor
role in determining the magnitude, temporal evolution and regional
distribution of those changes. Because of the poor observational
basis the ocean general circulation is not well understood. The
World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE) which is now underway is
an attempt to improve our knowledge of ocean dynamics and
thermodynamics on global scales relevant to climate change. Despite
those efforts, the oceanic data base is likely to remain scarce and
it is crucial to use appropriate methods in order to extract the
maximum amount of information from observations. The book contains
a thorough analysis of methods to combine data of val'ious types
with dynamical concepts, and to assimilate data directly into ocean
models. The properties of geocl;temical tracers such as HC, He,
Tritium and Freons and how they may be used to impose integral
constraints on the ocean circulation are discussed.
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