Physically-Based Modelling and Simulation of Climate and Climatic Change

' These two volumes are a useful contribution to the literature on climatic modelling, and I am pleased to have them in my personal library. The editor, Michael Schlesinger, deserves to be congratulated on his efforts, not only in seeing the Institute proceedings through to publication, but also in organizing the overall meeting. I particularly liked the artistic sketches by David Warrilow included at the front of the individual volumes - a very nice editorial inclusion. ' Ecomod, 9 (1-2) June 1991

• I - Design and Development of Physically-Based Models of the Atmosphere.- Section 1 - Introduction.- Climate and the Climate System.- Atmospheric General Circulation Models: Their Design and Use for Climate Studies.- Section 2 - Numerical Methods for Large-Scale Dynamics.- Finite-Difference Methods in Climate Modeling.- Spectral Methods in Global Climate and Weather Prediction Models.- Section 3 - Parameterization of Subgrid-Scale Physical Processes.- Radiative Transfer in Climate Models.- Land Surface Processes.- A Brief Description of the Simple Biosphere Model (SiB).- Parameterization of the Planetary Boundary Layer in Large-Scale Atmospheric Models.- Parameterization of Cumulus Convection in Large-Scale Models.- Parameterization of Condensation and Associated Clouds in Models for Weather Prediction and General Circulation Simulation.- II - Design and Development of Physically-Based Models of the Ocean and Sea Ice.- Modelling and Simulation of the General Circulation of the Ocean.- Modelling Sea Ice Thermodynamics and Dynamics in Climate Studies.- III - Methods of Coupling Atmosphere, Ocean and Ice Models.- Efficient Methods for Finding the Equilibrium Climate of Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Models.- Some Problems in the Numerical Simulation of Climate Variability Using High-Resolution Coupled Models.