Understanding and predicting climate change have recently acquired a sense of urgency
with the advent of serious climate‐related food shortages and with the realization that …

It is suggested that the high albedo of a desert contributes to a net radiative heat loss relative
to its surroundings and that the resultant horizontal temperature gradients induce a …

A method is described for rapidly computing the amount of solar energy absorbed at the
earth's surface and in the atmosphere as a function of altitude. The method is a parametric …

The need to understand differences among general circulation model projections of CO2‐
induced climatic change has motivated the present study, which provides an …

The equations of fluid motion have been formulated in a generalized noncartesian, non-
orthogonal coordinate system. A particular coordinate transformation, which transforms a …

A global atmospheric model is developed with a computational efficiency which allows long-
range climate experiments. The model solves the simultaneous equations for conservation …

Two integrations of a global general circulation model, differing only in the prescribed
surface albedo in the Sahara, show that an increase in albedo resulting from a decrease in …

Contemporary general circulation models (GCMs) and Earth system models (ESMs) are
developed by a large number of modeling groups globally. They use a wide range of …

Earth system models (ESMs) have been developed to represent the role of terrestrial
ecosystems on the energy, water, and carbon cycles. However, many ESMs still lack …

A clustering methodology is applied to cloud optical depth (τ)–cloud top pressure (TAU-PC)
histograms from the new 1° resolution ISCCP-H dataset to derive an updated global weather …