A Climate Modelling Primer

by Sellers A. Henderson, Kendal McGuffie, Ann Henderson-Sellers

This is the first self-contained introduction to climate modelling. Assuming only a basic algebra background, this text provides a history and introduction to climate models and describes such model types as energy balance, radiative-convective, two-dimensional, and general circulation. Stresses the importance of simple models of the climate and their value in testing and extending the concepts upon which much more complex models are founded. Written...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471914622
• ISBN13: 9780471914624
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.