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Large Scale Atmosphere-Ocean Interaction and Climate

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The large scale interaction of the atmosphere and the ocean occurs at the air-sea interface. Across this interface, there is an exchange of heat through the radiative, sensible and latent heat fluxes; freshwater through precipitation-evaporation differences and runoff; momentum through the winds, as well as trace gases such as carbon dioxide through chemical processes. In this paper, we focus on the exchanges of heat and freshwater across the air-sea interface which are important for climate. These exchanges drive the thermohaline circulation of the ocean, and it is widely believed that this circulation plays a major role in climate variability and climate change on interdecadal time scales. Some recent review papers on the role of the thermohaline circulation in climate variability are Weaver and Hughes (1993), Bryan and Stouffer (1991), and Marotzke (1994).

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  1. Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, and Centre for Climate and Global Change Research, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H3A 2K6

    Charles A. Lin

  2. Department of Physics, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada, A1B 3X7

    Richard J. Greatbatch & Sheng Zhang

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Lin, C.A., Greatbatch, R.J., Zhang, S. (1996). Large Scale Atmosphere-Ocean Interaction and Climate. In: Treut, H.L. (eds) Climate Sensitivity to Radiative Perturbations. NATO ASI Series, vol 34. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-61053-0_22

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