R. Saravanan (Texas A & M University)

The Climate Demon

Past, Present, and Future of Climate Prediction

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Climate predictions - and the computer models behind them - play a key role in shaping public opinion on climate change. Providing an accessible introduction to the history, science, and philosophy of climate modeling, it is for anyone with an interest in climate change and a basic knowledge of science.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 350
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Januar 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 203mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 648g
• ISBN-13: 9781009018043
• ISBN-10: 1009018043
• Artikelnr.: 62292128

Autorenporträt

R. Saravanan is Head of the Department of Atmospheric Sciences at Texas A&M University. He is a climate scientist with a background in physics and fluid dynamics and has been a lead researcher using computer models of the climate for over thirty years. He built an open-source simplified climate model from scratch, and has worked on complex models run on the world's most powerful supercomputers. He has worked with scientists at multiple climate modeling centers: the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) in Princeton; the UK Universities Global Atmospheric Modelling Programme (UGAMP) in Cambridge; and the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado. Saravanan has served on national and international committees on climate science, including the National Research Council (NRC) Committee on the Assessment of Intraseasonal to Interannual Climate Prediction and Predictability, and the Science Steering Committee of the Prediction and Research Moored Array in the Atlantic (PIRATA). He recently helped create the TED-Ed animated short, 'Is the weather actually becoming more extreme?'.

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I. The Past: 1. Deducing weather: The dawn of computing
2. Predicting weather: The butterfly and the tornado
3. The greenhouse effect: Goldilocks and the three planets
4. Deducing climate: Smagorinsky's laboratory
5. Predicting climate: Butterflies in the greenhouse
6. The ozone hole: Black swan at the polar dawn
7. Global warming: From gown to town. Part II: The Present: 8. Occam's razor: The reduction to simplicity
9. Constraining climate: A conservative view of modeling
10. Tuning climate: A comedy of compensating errors
11. Occam's beard: The emergence of complexity
12. The Hansen paradox: The red Queen's race of climate modeling
13. The Rumsfeld matrix: Degrees of knowledge
14. Lost in translation
15. Taking climate models seriously, not literally. Part III. The Future: 16. Moore's law: To exascale and beyond
17. Machine learning: The climate imitation game
18. Geoengineering: Reducing the fever
19. Pascal's wager: Hedging our climate bets
20. Moonwalking into the future. Epilogue. Glossary. Selected Bibliography. References. Index. Endnotes.