Book Review: General Circulation Model Development: Past, Present, and Future, David A. Randall (Ed.)
✍ Scribed by John Thuburn
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2001
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 13 KB
- Volume
- 2
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1530-261X
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✦ Synopsis
Only very few scientists are gifted enough to produce work that will have a profound and far-reaching influence on their field for decades. Professor Akio Arakawa has done this in not just one area but two, first through his formulation of finite difference schemes that respect the physical principles of energy and enstrophy conservation, and then, with Wayne Schubert, through their theory for the interaction of a cumulus cloud ensemble with the large-scale environment. The link between these apparently disparate developments is that they were both driven by the desire for realistic threedimensional model simulations of the general circulation.
To mark Professor Arakawa's official retirement from the University of California -Los Angeles (UCLA), and to celebrate his lifelong contribution to general circulation model development, a symposium was held in January 1998 at UCLA, which became known informally as the "AA Fest". The presentations at the symposium, many by Arakawa's collaborators and former students, are collected together as the 23 chapters of this book.