Numerical Modeling of the Global Atmosphere in the Climate System.
Series: NATO science series. Series C, Mathematical and physical sciences ; ; v. 550.Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, c2000Description: xii, 517 p. : ill. ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
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- 0792363019 (acidfree paper)
- 551.51/01/5118 21
- QC861.2 .N86 2000
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"Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on Numerical Modeling of the Global Atmosphere in the Climate System, Castelvecchio Pascoli, Italy, May 25-June 5 1998"--T.p. verso.
"Published in cooperation with NATO Scientific Affairs Division."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Numerical modeling of the global atmosphere has entered a new era. Whereas atmospheric modeling was once the domain of a few research units at universities or government laboratories, it can now be performed almost anywhere thanks to the affordability of computing power. Atmospheric general circulation models (GCMs) are being used by a rapidly growing scientific community in a wide range of applications. With widespread interest in anthropogenic climate change, GCMs have a role also in informing policy discussions. Many of the scientists using GCMs have backgrounds in fields other than atmospheric sciences and may be unaware of how GCMs are constructed. Recognizing this explosion in the application of GCMs, we organized a two week course in order to give young scientists who are relatively new to the field of atmospheric modeling a thorough grounding in the basic principles on which GCMs are constructed, an insight into their strengths and weaknesses, and guidance on how meaningful numerical experiments are formulated and analyzed. Sponsored by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and other institutions, this Advanced Study Institute (ASI) took place May 25-June 5, 1998, at II Ciocco, a remote hotel on a Tuscan hillside in Italy.