Research on climate physical processes

Author: Fang Zhifang
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Publish Date: 2006-02-01
Features: This textbook is based on the authors' extensive experience in climatology research and teaching. It comprehensively reviews the research findings of scholars both domestically and internationally on the climate system, summarizes their long-term research achievements, and systematically analyzes the intrinsic connections and complex physical processes among various factors in the climate system. From both diagnostic and simulation perspectives, it discusses these connections with practical examples, all within a framework of physics. The book is divided into three parts, comprising 12 chapters.
Part 1 introduces the intrinsic connections and potential change processes among factors in the climate system, including the basic composition and properties of the climate system, observational evidence of the connections between its factors, the interaction between the ocean and atmosphere, the impact of human activities and vegetation changes on climate change, and a summary and detailed description of the complex physical processes linking the cryosphere with the atmosphere and ocean.
Part 2 presents diagnostic analysis methods for studying the coupled interactions of climate element fields, such as canonical correlation analysis, singular value decomposition (SVD), complex singular value decomposition (CSVD), and wavelet propagation diagnostic methods.
Part 3 covers atmospheric general circulation models (GCMs), ocean-atmosphere coupled models, land-atmosphere interactions, land surface process models, and regional climate models. It applies the c0LA-GCM model to simulate the relationship between winter snow anomalies on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and the Asian summer monsoon, and uses land-atmosphere interaction and land surface process models to simulate the interactions between vegetation ecosystems and climate, as well as to study the evolution of the climate environment in the arid northwest region.
Each part of the book is an organic component of a complete structure, featuring both physical descriptions of the climate system and discussions of diagnostic analysis and numerical simulation methods, along with practical examples of research findings using these methods. It includes both diagnostic analysis techniques and climate models. The book can be read holistically or consulted selectively. It is suitable as a textbook or reference for undergraduate students in atmospheric science, graduate students in meteorology, atmospheric physics, and atmospheric environment, as well as for climate researchers and climate educators.