
The proceedings of the summer 1999 Chorin workshop on stochastic climate models captures well the spirit of enthusiasm of the workshop participants engaged in research in this exciting field. It is amazing that nearly 25 years after the formal theory of natural climate variability...

1 The Hierarchy of Climate Models.- A gallery of simple models from climate physics.- 1 Introduction.- 2 Fluid dynamics and thermodynamics.- 3 Reduced physics equations.- 4 Integrated models.- 5 Low-order models.- References.- Simple climate models.- 1 Climate and climate modelling.-...