Dynamic Analysis of Climate: Atmospheric Circulation, Perturbations, Climatic Evolution (Wiley-Praxis Series in Atmospheric Physics)

Must Read for Climate Scientists and Systems Ecologists - We must deal with a simple fact. The earth is a Warm Wet planet, that undergoes periodic Cooling. That cooling takes place primarily at the Poles. One of the most illuminating discourses on the Earth s climatic forcing, within the context of its atmospheric dynamics can be found in Marcel Leroux s Dynamic Analysis of Climate and Weather (1998, Wiley-Praxis) in which he points out that the rates of evolution of Mobile Polar Highs, or polar subsidence events, affect the climate and weather, from local to global scales. In fact, if you think about it, given the recorded information from paleo-science studies, the equatorial ocean has remained within a very small range of temperature values, despite the huge responses of the polar oceans, ice caps, and high altitude glaciers. This suggests that the rates of heat loss at the poles is the main modulator of global climate. Leroux s arguments are profound, and his direct evidence derives from the global observational data base from satellites.