Climate Atlas of the Atlantic Ocean Derived From the Comprehensive Ocean Atmosphere Data Set (COADS) (With CD-ROM)

The growing interest in climate & climatic change has renewed the demand for climate descriptions of the world oceans. Fields of climate variables are used as boundary conditions, or sea truth, for atmospheric & oceanic models & coupled models of the atmosphere-ocean system. The rapid improvements that modeling has made in recent years also call for more detailed descriptions of processes at the air-sea interface. The climate atlas presented here is restricted to the Atlantic Ocean. The Atlantic is of special interest for two reasons: The cross-equatorial ocean heat transport is an outstanding climatic feature which contributes to the high sea-surface temperatures in the Northeastern North Atlantic & the mild climate of Europe. From a more technical point of view, the data coverage of the Atlantic is much denser than for other parts of the world oceans. Hence, the Atlantic can well serve as a reliable test area of sea truth for both modeling & satellite remote sensing.Ralf Lindau is the author of 'Climate Atlas of the Atlantic Ocean Derived From the Comprehensive Ocean Atmosphere Data Set (COADS) (With CD-ROM)', published 2000 under ISBN 9783540668138 and ISBN 3540668136.