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This book provides students with a solid foundation in climate science, with which to understand global warming, natural climate variations and climate models. As climate models are one of the primary tools for predicting and adapting to climate change, it is vital that their strengths and limitations are appreciated. Also key is understanding what aspects of climate science are well understood and where quantitative uncertainties arise.
Contents
1. Overview of climate variability and climate science;
2. Basics of global climate;
3. Physical processes in the climate system;
4. El Nino and year-to-year climate prediction;
5. Climate models;
6. The greenhouse effect and climate feedbacks;
7. Climate model scenarios for global warming;
References;
Index.
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J. David Neelin is a professor and chair of the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, and member of the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics at the University of California, Los Angeles. He has published over 100 scientific papers, including contributions to understanding and predictability of the El Nino Southern oscillation phenomenon, decadal variability, vegetation interaction with climate variability, how rainfall interacts with natural climate variability and anthropogenic change and methods of improving representation of rainfall processes in climate models.
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By: J David Neelin
282 pages, 137 b/w illustrations, 8 tables
This is a timely and important book that lucidly and engagingly covers topics related to climate change, topics that currently receive enormous attention and that unfortunately cause polarization.'
- Professor S. George Philander, Princeton University
David Neelin's book is a very valuable and accessible textbook for students of climate science, and all those with an interest in climate modeling. It is a thorough and highly readable book that neatly spans the gap between general interest climate change texts and higher-level books for specialists."
- Dr Drew Shindell, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies
"This book presents the diverse subjects of climate modeling and climate variability in a way that is clear and understandable to students from different backgrounds. The author is a world-famous climate scientist who has been highly successful both in research and teaching, covering all of the theoretical, modeling and data analysis aspects of climate science. The book is based on a course he has been teaching at UCLA for many years, which has been extremely popular and highly valued by students from a variety of disciplines. I am sure that the book will soon become the standard textbook on climate modeling and climate change."
- Professor Akio Arakawa, University of California, Los Angeles
"With the looming prospect of serious climate change at hand, it is ever more important to interest the best and brightest minds in the challenging problems of climate science. But those of us who teach climate science have been handicapped by the lack of a comprehensive and engaging text. With his masterful Climate Change and Climate Modeling, David Neelin has answered our prayers."
- Professor Kerry A. Emanuel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
