The Climate Modelling Primer

Kendal McGuffie (Author), Ann Henderson-Sellers (Author)

9781119943372, Wiley

Paperback / softback, published 28 March 2014

464 pages
24.4 x 18.8 x 2 cm, 0.953 kg

"The Climate Modelling Primer is wide-ranging, not just in covering everything from simple radiation balance models to Global Circulation and Earth System Models, but in considering many different aspects of models and modelling.... It offers a wealth of resources for those learning how to do climate science as well as for those after a multi-faceted understanding of how it is done."
—Danny Yee's Book Reviews

As a consequence of recent increased awareness of the social and political dimensions of climate, many non-specialists discover a need for information about the variety of available climate models. A Climate Modelling Primer, Fourth Edition is designed to explain the basis and mechanisms of all types of current physically-based climate models.

A thoroughly revised and updated edition, this book will assist the reader in understanding the complexities and applicabilities of today’s wide range of climate models. Topics covered include the latest techniques for modelling the coupled biosphere-ocean-atmosphere system, information on current practical aspects of climate modelling and ways to evaluate and exploit the results, discussion of Earth System Models of Intermediate Complexity (EMICs), and interactive exercises based on Energy Balance Model (EBM) and the Daisyworld model. Source codes and results from a range of model types allows readers to make their own climate simulations and to view the results of the latest high resolution models. Now in full colour throughout and with the addition of cartoons to enhance student understanding the new edition of this successful textbook enables the student to tackle the difficult subject of climate modeling.

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Subject Areas: Science: general issues [PD]