History of climate modeling

Paul N. Edwards

Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, 2011, vol. 2, issue 1, 128-139

Abstract: The history of climate modeling begins with conceptual models, followed in the 19th century by mathematical models of energy balance and radiative transfer, as well as simple analog models. Since the 1950s, the principal tools of climate science have been computer simulation models of the global general circulation. From the 1990s to the present, a trend toward increasingly comprehensive coupled models of the entire climate system has dominated the field. Climate model evaluation and intercomparison is changing modeling into a more standardized, modular process, presenting the potential for unifying research and operational aspects of climate science. WIREs Clim Change 2011 2 128–139 DOI: 10.1002/wcc.95 This article is categorized under: Climate, History, Society, Culture > Technological Aspects and Ideas Climate Models and Modeling > Knowledge Generation with Models

Date: 2011
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