Abstract:
Global climatology was the principal theme of the eighteenth summer program in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
This single volume contains course lectures, abstracts of seminars and lectures
by summer fellows.
As in previous years, the summer fellows were responsible for preparing a
first draft of the course lectures on the principal theme. In most cases, the
lecturer has been able to re-work the material further. The course lecturers,
all of whom contributed so much to the program, are Richard S. Lindzen, Wallace
S. Broecker, Abraham H. Oort, John Imbrie, Thomas Vonder Haar, Gerald R. North,
Claes Rooth, Gene E. Birchfield, and Richard C. Somerville.
The abstracted seminars cover a broad range of topics, including a one week
symposium on planetary and benthic boundary layers. Much valuable material
is referred to in these abstracts.
The major creative products of the summer are the lectures of the ten
fellows. These lectures have not been edited or reviewed in the manner appropriate
for published papers, and should be regarded as unpublished manuscripts.
Readers who would like to quote or use the material should write directly to the
authors .
As in previous years, much of the ultimate value of this summer's activities
is likely to appear as published papers during the next year or two. In
this sense, the material in this volume is simply a report of an ongoing research
effort.
We all express our thanks to the National Science Foundation, which provided
the bulk of the financial support, the Office of Naval Research, which
supported the Boundary Layer Symposium and some of the staff participation, and
to Mary C. Thayer, who managed the program and prepared this volume.
