
Modeling the Earth's Climate and its Variability: Volume 67
North-Holland (Publisher)
Published on 13. December 1999
Book
Hardback
564 pages
978-0-444-50338-1 (ISBN)
Description
Understanding and predicting the Earth's climate system, particularly climate variability and possible human-induced climate change, presents one of the most difficult and urgent challenges in science. Climate scientists worldwide have responded to that challenge over the past decade by creating a wide variety of ever more sophisticated climate models that are beginning to show considerable ability to replicate many aspects of the climate system. At the same time, to fully understand climate change, one also has to look to past climates. For this purpose five eminent scholars who span the disciplines of modeling and observation, including elements of past, present and future climate studies came together at this Les Houches school. They presented a systematic development of each of their respective subjects which provided a comprehensive overview of this vast and complex subject. These core lectures were supplemented by a set of shorter lectures and of seminars.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Elsevier Science & Technology
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Illustrations, maps, ports.
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
990 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-444-50338-1 (9780444503381)
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Persons
Author
National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, USA
CEA Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Content
Courses1. The observed climate of the 20th century (E.M. Rasmusson, M. Chelliah, C.F. Ropelewski)2. Numerical modelling of the earth's climate (L. Bengtsson)3. Ocean modelling and the role of the ocean in the climate system (P. Delecluse, G. Madec)4. Past climatic changes (J.-C. Duplessy)5. Paleomyths I have known (T.J. Crowley)
Specialized CoursesSeminar 1. Climate variability of a coupled ocean-atmosphere-land surface model: implication for the detection of global warming (S. Manage, R.J. Stouffer)6. Variability of the oceanic thermohaline circulation (W.R. Holland, A. Capotondi)7. Modeling extreme climates of the past 20,000 years with general circulation models (S. Joussaume). Seminars by participants
Specialized CoursesSeminar 1. Climate variability of a coupled ocean-atmosphere-land surface model: implication for the detection of global warming (S. Manage, R.J. Stouffer)6. Variability of the oceanic thermohaline circulation (W.R. Holland, A. Capotondi)7. Modeling extreme climates of the past 20,000 years with general circulation models (S. Joussaume). Seminars by participants