2-2: Climate Models

Short Summaries of Recent Research

• Feedback from PETM Could Explain Sustained Warming
  
  
• African Droughts Increase Dust in the Caribbean
  
  
• Improving Representation of Clouds in Climate Models
  
  
• Global Ice Volume, Deep Ocean Temperatures, and Climate Surprises
  
  

Websites

• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
  
  
• Cloud Radiative Processes, NASA
  
  
• Intergovernmental Papers on Stabilization and Models
  
  

Additional References

• Jenkyns, H.C., A. Forster, S. Schouten, and J.S.S. Damste, 2004: High temperatures in the late cretaceous Arctic Ocean. Nature, 432, 888-892.
  
  
• Pielke, R. A., Jr., 2001: Room for doubt. Nature, 410, 151.
  
  
• McGuffie, K., and A. Henderson-Sellers, 1997: A Climate Modelling Primer. Second Edition. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 253 pp.
  
  
• Kerr, Richard A., 1997: Greenhouse Forecasting Still Cloudy. Science, 276, 1040-1042.
  
  
• Kerr, Richard A., 1997: Model Gets it Right--Without Fudge Factors. Science, 276, 1041.
  
  
• Trenberth, K.,1997: The Use and Abuse of Climate Models. Nature, 386, 131-133.
  
  
• Houghton, J. T., L. G. Meira Filho, B. A. Callander N. Harris, A. Kattenberg, and K. Maskell, 1996: Climate Change 1995. The Science of Climate Change. Cambridge University Press, pp 236-245.
• Kerr, Richard A., 1995: Darker clouds promise brighter future for climate models. Science, 267, 454.
  
  
• Dickinson, R. E., 1995: Walter Orr Robers Lecuture - Land surface processes and climate modeling. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 76, 1445-1448
  
  
• Ramanathan, V., et al., 1995: Warm pool heat budget and shortwave cloud forcing: a missing physics? Science, 267, 499-503.
  
  
• Cess, R. D., et al., 1995: Absorption of solar radiation by clouds: observations vs. models. Science, 267, 496-499.
  
  
• Houghton, J.T., G.J. Jenkins, J.J. Ephraums, eds, 1990: 1990 Intergovernment Panel on Climate Change, Cambridge University Press, 77-80.
  
  
• Zeng, Xubin, R.A. Pielke, R. Eykholt, 1990: Chaos in Daisyworld. Tellus, 4, 309-318.
  
  
• Houghton, J. T., G. J. Jenkins, and J. J. Ephraums, 1990: Climate Change, The IPCC Scientific Assessment. Cambridge University Press. p. 80-89.
  
  
• Lashof, D.A., 1989: The dynamic greenhouse: Feedback processes that may influence future concentrations of atmospheric trace gases and climatic change. Climate Change, 14, 213-242.
  
  
• Henderson-sellers, A., and K. McGuffie, 1987: A Climate Modeling Primer. John Wiley & Sons. New York. 217 pp.
  
  
• Science and Nonscience Concerning Human-Caused Climate Warming
  J. D. Mahlman Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory/ NOAA, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08542
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