The Climate Modelling Primer, 4th Edition - Couverture souple

McGuffie

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 111994337X ISBN 13 : 9781119943372

Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell, 2014

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture

Climate modelling affects everyone, everywhere. Today, we allneed to know whether and how climate models work; how they haveevolved; and how well they are understood by those who build them,the funders who support them, the policy analysts who use them andthe communicators who explain their outputs. The Climate ModellingPrimer is a completely revised guide to the rules and riddles ofclimate modelling for those who need to know how modern models workand what they can deliver.

The Climate Modelling Primer, Fourth Edition engagesreaders in an interactive experience: making use of internetresources via QR codes that link to talks, simulations, results andassessments. Using these, readers can:

  Speed Date real climate models
 Solve four CSI (climate simulation intrigues)mysteries in every chapter
 Meet fascinating climate modellers who have shapedthis science
 Attempt to validate many climate modelsimulations
 Probe significant aspects of important climatemodelling papers
 Explore concepts with downloadable, easy–to–useclimate models
 Communicate climate modelling ideas
 Draw and analyse feedbacks and wiring diagrams.

This book encompasses the history of climate modelling and itsfuture; how climate models are used in simulations of past, futureand current climates at many scales; the wide range ofcommunication forms employed to share results from climate modelsimulations with different audiences; the variety of confidence anduncertainty measures associated with climate model outputs and howto interpret them; and the ways in which results from climatemodels affect twenty–first century policy, laws, internationaltrade and human development.

This book s audience includes all those who wish tounderstand twenty–first century climate modelling.

Présentation de l'éditeur

As a consequence of recent increased awareness of the social andpolitical dimensions of climate, many non–specialists discover aneed for information about the variety of available climate models. A Climate Modelling Primer, Fourth Edition is designed toexplain the basis and mechanisms of all types of currentphysically–based climate models.

A thoroughly revised and updated edition, this book will assistthe reader in understanding the complexities and applicabilities oftoday s wide range of climate models. Topics covered includethe latest techniques for modelling the coupledbiosphere–ocean–atmosphere system, information on current practicalaspects of climate modelling and ways to evaluate and exploit theresults, discussion of Earth System Models of IntermediateComplexity (EMICs), and interactive exercises based on EnergyBalance Model (EBM) and the Daisyworld model. Source codes andresults from a range of model types allows readers to make theirown climate simulations and to view the results of the latest highresolution models. Now in full colour throughout and with theaddition of cartoons to enhance student understanding the newedition of this successful textbook enables the student to tacklethe difficult subject of climate modeling.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Wiley-Blackwell
• Date d'édition: 2014
• ISBN 10: 111994337X
• ISBN 13: 9781119943372
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Numéro d'édition: 4
• Nombre de pages: 456