General Circulation Model Development

Download or read book General Circulation Model Development written by David Allan Randall and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributors. Foreword -- -- Preface -- -- A Arakawa -- Personal Perspective on the Early Years of General Circulation Modeling at UCLA. -- -- P.N. Edwards -- A Brief History of Atmospheric General Circulation Modeling. -- -- J.M. Lewis -- Clarifying the Dynamics of the General Circulation: Phillips's 1956 Experiment. -- -- J. Hansen, et al. -- Climate Modeling in the Global Warming Debate. -- -- M. Halem, J Kouatchou, A. Hudson -- A Retrospective Analysis of the Pioneering Data Assimilation Experiments with the Mintz-Arakawa General Circulation Model. -- -- W. Schubert -- A Retrospective View of Arakawa's Ideas on Cumulus Parameterization. -- -- A. Kasahara -- On the Origin of Cumulus Parameterization for Numerical Prediction Models. -- -- K. Emanuel -- Quasi-Equilibrium Thinking. -- -- S. Moorthi -- Application of Relaxed Arakawa-Schubert Cumulus Parameterization t the NCEP Climate Model: Some Sensitivity Experiments. -- -- M. Ghil & A.W. Robertson -- Solving Problems with GCMs: Gene ...