Forty years of numerical climate modelling

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 21, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 1067-1109

  McGuffie, K ^a   Henderson Sellers, A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

Author keywords

Archaean; Climate models; Climate system; Deforestation; Earth models of intermediate complexity (EMICs); Feedbacks; Global climate (GCMs); Greenhouse warming; Land use change; Last glacial maximum; Mid holocene; Milankovitch; Models; Ozone hole; Palaeoclimate

Indexed keywords

EARTH ATMOSPHERE; NUMERICAL METHODS; SUPERCOMPUTERS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ENERGY BALANCE MODELS (EBM);

CLIMATOLOGY;

CLIMATE MODELING; HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE;

EID: 0035390143     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.632     Document Type: Article

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