Product Description

General Circulation Models (GCMs) are rapidly assuming widespread use as powerful tools for predicting global events on time scales of months to decades. This book focuses on the future design of numerical methods for general circulation modeling, as well as the physical parameterizations required for their proper implementation.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #2564888 in Books
• Published on: 2000-07-19
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 2.73 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 416 pages

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Review
"The book constitutes a most important reference for general circulation modeling, and should be useful for students, teachers and researchers. The editor, David A. Randall, has done an extraordinary job in maintaining the high quality and uniform standards of the contributions ... the appearance of this book is a major contribution to the field, and the editor should be congratulated for his excellent job."
--Eugenia Kalnay, Bulletin of the AMS, (May 2001)
"Although it is primarily a celebration of the breadth and influence of Arakawa's work, particularly on numerical methods for general circulation models (GCMs) and the parametrization of cumulus convection, the book contains a great deal of valuable matieral that is well presented and well worth reading. ...an excellent book, with presentations that provide a historical as well as scientific perspective. All concerned should be congratulated, notably David Randall for the considerable task of editing material that covers 23 chapters and just over 800 pages. This is a fitting tribute to one of the great innovators and thinkers of our science."
—QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY