Theory of Climate, Proceedings of a Symposium Commemorating the Two-Hundredth Anniversary of the Academy of Sciences of Lisbon

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Author(s): Barry Saltzman (Eds.)
Series: Advances in Geophysics 25
Publisher: Academic Press
Year: 1983

Language: English
Pages: iii-xii, 3-505
Tags: Физика;Периодика по физике;Advances in Geophysics;

Content:
Edited by
Page iii

Copyright page
Page iv

Contributors
Pages ix-x

Foreword
Pages xi-xii
Barry Saltzman

The Beginnings of Numerical Weather Prediction and General Circulation Modeling: Early Recollections Original Research Article
Pages 3-37
Joseph Smagorjnsky

Carbon Dioxide and Climatic Change Original Research Article
Pages 39-82
Syukuro Manabe

Almost Empirical Approaches to the Problem of Climate, its Variations and Fluctuations Original Research Article
Pages 85-115
G.S. Golitsyn

Parameterization of Traveling Weather Systems in a Simple Model of Large-Scale Atmospheric Flow Original Research Article
Pages 117-172
G.J. Shutts

Climatic Systems Analysis Original Research Article
Pages 173-233
Barry Saltzman

Satellite Radiation Observations and Climate Theory Original Research Article
Pages 237-304
George Ohring, Arnold Gruber

Land Surface Processes and Climate—Surface Albedos and Energy Balance Original Research Article
Pages 305-353
Robert E. Dickinson

Global Angular Momentum and Energy Balance Requirements from Observations Original Research Article
Pages 355-490
Abraham H. Oort, José P. Peixóto

Index
Pages 491-505