Call number:
PIK M 370-92-0667
;
AWI A13-92-0307
Type of Medium:
Monograph available for loan
Pages:
XV, 217 S.
,
Ill., graph. Darst.
ISBN:
0471914622
Series Statement:
Research and developments in climate and climatology
Language:
English
Note:
Contents:
Preface. -
Acknowledgements. -
Chapter 1 Climate. -
1.1 The components of climate. -
1.2 Climate modelling and climate prediction. -
1.3 Climate changes and human perception. -
1.4 Feedback mechanisms in climate. -
1.4.1 The ice-albedo feedback mechanism. -
1.4.2 The water vapour “greenhouse”. -
1.4.3 Cloud feedbacks. -
1.4.4 Combining feedback effects. -
1.5 Perturbations on the climate system. -
1.5.1 External causes of climatic change. -
1.5.2 Internal causes of climatic change. -
1.6 Range of questions for climate modelling. -
Recommended reading. -
Chapter 2 A history of and introduction to climate models. -
2.1 Introducing climate modelling. -
2.2 Types of climate models. -
2.2.1 Energy balance climate models. -
2.2.2 One-dimensional radiative-convective climate models. -
2.2.3 Two-dimensional climate models. -
2.2.4 General circulation climate models. -
2.3 History of climate modelling. -
2.4 Sensitivity of climate models. -
2.5 Parameterization of climatic processes. -
2.6 Simulation of the full, interacting climate system: one goal of modelling. -
Chapter 3 Energy balance models. -
3.1 Balancing the planetary radiation budget. -
3.2 The structure of energy balance models. -
3.3 Parameterizing the climate system for energy balance models. -
3.4 A BASIC energy balance climate model. -
3.5 Experiments with energy balance models. -
3.5.1 Explicit modelling of the cryosphere. -
3.6 Box models — another form of energy balance model. -
3.6.1 A simple box model of the ocean-atmosphere. -
3.6.2 A coupled atmosphere, land and ocean energy balance box model. -
3.7 Energy balance models: deceptively simple models. -
Recommended reading. -
Chapter 4 Radiative-convective models. -
4.1 The concept of a radiative-convective climate model. -
4.2 The structure of global radiative-convective models. -
4.3 Radiation computation. -
4.3.1 Shortwave radiation. -
4.3.2 Longwave radiation. -
4.3.3 Eleat balance at the ground. -
4.4 Convective adjustment. -
4.5 Sensitivity experiments with radiative-convective models. -
4.6 Development of radiative-convective models. -
4.6.1 Cloud amount and height predicted from ‘convection’. -
4.6.2 A water vapour transport model. -
4.7 Radiation: the driver of climate. -
Recommended reading. -
Chapter 5 Two-dimensional models. -
5.1 Why two-dimensional models?. -
5.2 Two-dimensional statistical dynamical climate models. -
5.3 Convection, cloud cover and precipitation in two-dimensional statistical dynamical models. -
5.4 Radiation and surface characterization in two-dimensional statistical dynamical models. -
5.4.1 Radiation. -
5.4.2 Surface characterization. -
5.5 Intercomparison of a two-and a three-dimensional model. -
5.6 Other types of two-dimensional models. -
5.6.1 An upgraded energy balance model. -
5.6.2 A severely truncated spectral general circulation climate model. -
5.7 Why are some climate modellers Flatlanders?. -
Recommended reading. -
Chapter 6 General circulation climate models. -
6.1 The structure of general circulation climate models. -
6.2 Dynamics in general circulation climate models. -
6.2.1 Cartesian (or rectangular) grid general circulation climate models. -
6.2.2 Spectral general circulation climate models. -
6.3 Physics in general circulation climate models. -
6.3.1 Radiative transfer. -
6.3.2 Boundary layer. -
6.3.3 Surface parameterization. -
6.3.4 Convection. -
6.3.5 Large scale rainfall. -
6.4 Including ‘other’ elements in general circulation climate models. -
6.4.1 Cloud prediction. -
6.4.2 Modelling the cryosphere. -
6.5 Land surface parameterization in general circulation climate models. -
6.6 Coupled ocean-atmosphere general circulation climate models. -
6.7 Future climate projects and their importance to general circulation climate models. -
6.8 Epilogue. -
Recommended reading. -
Appendices. -
A. Glossary. -
B. Climate models: examples of simple microcomputer software. -
I. Daisyworld: a simple biospheric feedback climate model. -
II. Modelling the climatic impact of anthropogenerated albedo change. -
III. An energy balance climate model (EBM). -
IV. Carbon dioxide feedback using a simple ocean model. -
General Bibliography. -
Index.
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AWI Reading room
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