Targeting graduate science and engineering students, and stipulating at the outset that the definition of climate is nebulous and evolving, Drake’s primary focus is to describe the principles and practice of climate modeling. Not to be underestimated is the role of general circulation models and high-end computer simulation. Climate will be viewed as multifaceted but always as the solution of a specific mathematic model. There are five chapters: earth observations; geophysical flow; numerical methods of climate modeling; climate simulation; climate analysis. There are figures and a bibliography. Annotation ©2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
A guide to climate modelling and simulation, focussing on numerical methods for PDEs and algorithms for high-performance computing.
