Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Overview of climate modeling
- 2 Climate-change modeling: a brief history of the theory and recent twenty-first-century ensemble simulations
- 3 Energy-balance climate models
- 4 Intrinsic climatic variability: an essay on modes and mechanisms of oceanic and atmospheric fluid dynamics
- 5 The radiative forcing due to clouds and water vapor
- 6 A model study of the effect of Pinatubo volcanic aerosols on stratospheric temperatures
- 7 Unresolved issues in atmospheric solar absorption
- 8 Cloud feedbacks
- 9 Water-vapor feedback
- 10 Water-vapor observations
- 11 New frontiers in remote sensing of aerosols and their radiative forcing of climate
- 12 Cloud–climate feedback: lessons learned from two El Niño events
- 13 Runaway greenhouses and runaway glaciations: how stable is Earth's climate?
- Glossary
- Plate section
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 August 2009
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Overview of climate modeling
- 2 Climate-change modeling: a brief history of the theory and recent twenty-first-century ensemble simulations
- 3 Energy-balance climate models
- 4 Intrinsic climatic variability: an essay on modes and mechanisms of oceanic and atmospheric fluid dynamics
- 5 The radiative forcing due to clouds and water vapor
- 6 A model study of the effect of Pinatubo volcanic aerosols on stratospheric temperatures
- 7 Unresolved issues in atmospheric solar absorption
- 8 Cloud feedbacks
- 9 Water-vapor feedback
- 10 Water-vapor observations
- 11 New frontiers in remote sensing of aerosols and their radiative forcing of climate
- 12 Cloud–climate feedback: lessons learned from two El Niño events
- 13 Runaway greenhouses and runaway glaciations: how stable is Earth's climate?
- Glossary
- Plate section
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- Frontiers of Climate Modeling , pp. i - ivPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2006