A Climate Modelling Primer (McGuffie/A Climate Modelling Primer) || Appendix A: Twentieth-Century Classics

✍ Scribed by McGuffie, Kendal; Henderson-Sellers, Ann

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 94 KB
• Edition: 3
• Category: Article
• ISBN: 0470857501
• DOI: 10.1002/0470857617.app1

✦ Synopsis

This book was first conceived as an introduction to climate modelling in late 1985. In the intervening 20 years, the volume of climate modelling literature has expanded enormously, particularly in response to the IPCC assessments. Recognizing that any climate modelling neophyte may feel overwhelmed by the volume of books and research papers that exist on the topic, we have taken this opportunity to present a distillation of some of the classics of the climate literature from its inception to 2000.

We have tried to pick out not only consolidating material, such as review papers and textbooks, but also other significant papers that have highlighted the development of climate modelling. This is by no means an objective process: there can be no definitive list of 'best' climate modelling references. However, in addition to our own prejudices, we also present the enthusiasms of a few, select colleagues. We hope that you will get a flavour for the thrill of discovery that accompanies climate modelling and, through this 'original source' material, come to understand milestones that have made this exciting discipline what it is today.

EBMs and other 'simple' models

Budyko, M.I. (1969) The effect of solar radiation variations on the climate of the Earth. Tellus 21, 611-619. Sellers, W.D. (1969) A global climatic model based on the energy balance of the Earthatmosphere system.