General Circulation Models (GCMs) are rapidly assuming widespread use as powerful tools for predicting global events on time scales of months to decades, such as the onset of EL Nino, monsoons, soil moisture saturation indices, global warming estimates, and even snowfall predictions. While GCMs have
General Circulation Model Development: Past, Present, and Future
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- Publisher
- Academic Press
- Year
- 2000
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 849
- Series
- International Geophysics Volume 70
- Edition
- 1st
- Category
- Library
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