author : Ann Henderson-Sellers

The Climate Modelling Primer, Fourth Edition engages readers in an interactive experience: making use of internet resources via QR codes that link to talks, simulations, results and assessments. Using these, readers can:

• ‘Speed Date’ real climate models
• Solve four CSI (climate simulation intrigues) mysteries in every chapter
• Meet fascinating climate modellers who have shaped this science
• Attempt to ‘validate’ many climate model simulations
• Probe significant aspects of important climate modelling papers
• Explore concepts with downloadable, easy-to-use climate models
• Communicate climate modelling ideas
• Draw and analyse feedbacks and ‘wiring’ diagrams.

This book encompasses the history of climate modelling and its future; how climate models are used in simulations of past, future and current climates at many scales; the wide range of communication forms employed to share results from climate model simulations with different audiences; the variety of confidence and uncertainty measures associated with climate model outputs and how to interpret them; and the ways in which results from climate models affect twenty-first century policy, laws, international trade and human development.

This book’s audience includes all those who wish to understand twenty-first century climate modelling.