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Climate and the Oceans

Paperback • 2012 • English

Climate and the Oceans

By Geoffrey K. Vallis

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About the book

The oceans exert a vital moderating influence on the Earth's climate system. They provide inertia to the global climate, essentially acting as the pacemaker of climate variability and change, and they provide heat to high latitudes, keeping them habitable. Climate and the Oceans offers a short, self-contained introduction to the subject. This illustrated primer begins by briefly describing the world's climate system and ocean circulation and goes on to explain the important ways that the oceans ...Show more

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9780691150284

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Published year

2012

Language

English

Original title

Climate and the Oceans

Format

Paperback

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