Frontiers of Climate Modeling

ISBN: 9780521298681 出版年：2006 页码：398 J T Kiehl V Ramanathan Cambridge University Press

Preface 1. Overview of climate modeling J. T. Kiehl 2. Climate change modeling: a brief history of the theory and recent 21st century ensemble simulations W. M. Washington, A. Dai and G. A. Meehl 3. Energy balance climate models G. R. North and M. J. Stevens 4. Intrinsic climate variability: modes and mechanisms of oceanic and atmospheric fluid dynamics J.C. McWilliams 5. The radiative forcing due to clouds and water vapor V. Ramanathan and A. Inamdar 6. A model study of the effect of Pinatubo volcanic aerosols on stratospheric temperatures V. Ramaswmay, S. Ramachandran, G. Stenchikov and A. Robock 7. Unresolved issues in atmospheric solar absorption W. D. Collins 8. Cloud feedbacks D. A. Randall, M. E. Schlesinger, V. Galin, V. Meleshko, J.-J. Morcette and R. Wetherald 9. Water vapor feedback D. Rind 10. Water vapor observations B. J. Soden 11. New frontiers in remote sensing of aerosols and their radiative forcing of climate Y. J. Kaufman, L. A. Remer and D. Tanre 12. Cloud-climate feedback: lessons learned from two El Nino events M. Zhang 13. Runaway greenhouses and runaway glaciations: how stable is Earth's climate? J. F. Kasting.