contents:

Climate and climate variability. Introduction -- Definition of climate -- The climate system -- Climate variability -- Marine weather phenomena -- Introduction -- Mid-latitude storms and storm tracks -- Tropical cyclones -- Wind-generated waves -- Tides, storm surges, and mean sea level -- Models for the marine environment. Introduction -- Quasi-realistic modeling -- Climate models -- Wind wave models -- Tide-surge models -- How to determine long-term changes in marine climate -- Introduction -- Problems with data quality -- Proxy data -- Global reanalyses and regional reconstructions -- Regionalization techniques -- Scenarios and projections -- Detection and attribution -- Past and future changes in wind, wave, and storm surge climates. Introduction -- Mid-latitude cyclones and storm tracks -- Tropical cyclones -- Wind-generated waves -- Tides, storm surges, and mean sea level -- Mean sea level --

Appendix A.1 : scale analysis -- Appendix A.2 : geostrophic wind -- Appendix A.3 : geopotential height and pressure as vertical coordinates -- Appendix A.4 : thermal wind -- Appendix A.5 : list of symbols -- Appendix A.6 : references.