Frontiers of climate modeling /

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Imprint:Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Description:1 online resource (x, 367 pages, 19 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color), portraits
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11826192
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Other authors / contributors:Kiehl, J. T. (Jeffrey T.), editor.
Ramanathan, Veerabhadran, editor.
ISBN:9780511349423
0511349424
0511348479
9780511348471
9780511345586
0511345585
9780511535857
0511535856
9780521791328
0521791324
Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
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Summary:Reference on climate modeling and understanding the climate system for researchers and advanced students.
Other form:Print version: Frontiers of climate modeling. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2006 9780521791328
Table of Contents:
  • Overview of climate modeling / J.T. Kiehl
  • Climate-change modeling : a brief history of the theory and recent twenty-first-century ensemble simulations / W.M. Washington, A. Dai, and G.A. Meehl
  • Energy-balance climate models / G.R. North and M.J. Stevens
  • Instrinsic climatic variability : an essay on modes and mechanisms of oceanic and atmospheric fluid dynamics / J.C. McWilliams
  • The radiative forcing due to clouds and water vapor / V. Ramanathan and A. Inamdar
  • A model study of the effect of Pinatubo volcanic aerosols on stratospheric temperatures / V. Ramaswamy [and others]
  • Unresolved issues in atmospheric solar absorption / W.D. Collins
  • Cloud feedbacks / D.A. Randall [and others]
  • Water-vapor feedback / D.H. Rind
  • Water-vapor observations / B.J. Soden
  • New frontiers in remote sensing of aerosols and their radiative forcing of climate / Y.J. Kaufman, L.A. Remer, And D. Tanré
  • Cloud-climate feedback : lessons learned from two El Niño events / M. Zhang
  • Runaway greenhouses and runaway glaciations : how stable is earth's climate? / J.F. Kasting.