Earth System Modelling - Volume 3 Coupling Software and Strategies
Collected articles in this series are dedicated to the development and use of software for earth system modelling and aims at bridging the gap between IT solutions and climate science. The particular topic covered in this volume addresses the major coupli
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Sophie Valcke René Redler Reinhard Budich •
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Dr. Sophie Valcke CERFACS, Av. Coriolis 42 31057 Toulouse Cedex 01 France e-mail: [email protected]
Reinhard Budich Max-Planck-Institut für Meteorologie Bundesstraße 53 20146 Hamburg Germany e-mail: [email protected]
Dr. René Redler Max-Planck-Institut für Meteorologie Bundesstraße 53 20146 Hamburg Germany e-mail: [email protected]
ISSN 2191-589X ISBN 978-3-642-23359-3 DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-23360-9
e-ISSN 2191-5903 e-ISBN 978-3-642-23360-9
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Preface
Climate modelling in former times mostly covered the physical processes in the atmosphere. Nowadays, there is a general agreement that not only physical, but also chemical, biological and, in the near future, economical and sociological—the so-called anthropogenic—processes have to be taken into account on the way towards comprehensive Earth system models. Furthermore these models include the oceans, the land surfaces and, so far to a lesser extent, the Earth’s mantle. Between all these components feedback processes have to be described and simulated. Today, a hierarchy of models exist for Earth system modelling. The spectrum reaches from conceptual models—back of the envelope calculations—over box-, process- or column-models, further to Earth system models of intermediate complexity and finally to comprehensive global circulation models of high resolution in space and time. Since the underlying mathematical equations in most cases do not have an analytical solution, they have to be solved numerically. This is only possible by applying sophisticated software tools, which increase in complexity from the simple to the more comprehensive models. With this series of briefs on ‘‘Earth System Modelling’’ at h
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