Assessing climate change
Subtitle: results from the Model Evaluation Consortium for Climate Assessment
By: edited by Wendy Howe, Ann Henderson-Sellers.
Contributors: Howe, Wendy.; Henderson-Sellers, A.; Model Evaluation Consortium for Climate Assessment.
Publisher: Gordon and Breach Science Publishers
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Amsterdam
Language: eng
Number of pages: 418
Subjects: Climatic changes -- Mathematical models.; Climatology -- Mathematical models.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: Origins and establishment of the MECCA project / Richard A. Anthes; Evolution of the MECCA project / Wendy Howe and Ann Henderson-Sellers; Commentary / Kendal McGuffie; Comparative energetics analysis of climate models with high and low resolutions / Hiroshi L. Tanaka and Akira Hasegawa; Anthropogenic aerosols and climate change : a method for calibrating forcing / Joyce E. Penner ... [et al] Commentary / Neil Holbrook; Climate model simulations of global warming / Warren M. Washington and Gerald A. Meehl; Meridional heat transport variablity from a global eddy-resolving ocean model / Robert M. Chervin, Anthony P. Craig and Albert J. Semtner Jnr; North Atlantic model sensitivity to Mediterranean waters / Matthew Hecht ... [et al.]; Commentary / Robert E. Dickinson, Andrea N. Hahmann and Qingqiu Shao; Dependence of model 'climate sensitivity' on convective parameterisation / Bryant J. McAvaney and Robert A. Colman; Uncertainties in GCM evaluations of tropical deforestation : a comparison of two model simulations / Huqiang Zhang ... [et al.]; The climate effect of doubled stomatal resistance / David Pollard and Starley L. Thompson; Commentary / Sascha Schubert; Climate change scenarios incorporating changes in daily climate variability / Linda O. Mearns and Cynthia Rosenzweig; Global climate models and global vegetation models / Catherine Ciret; Tropical cyclones and climate change : a preliminary assessment / Heather Tonkin ... [et al.]; MECCA achievements and lessons learned / Ann Henderson-Sellers and Wendy Howe; MECCA consortium overiew and members' views / Wendy Howe ... [et al.].