Stochastic Physics and Climate Modelling

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Hardcover | 3 December 2009

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This is the first book to promote the use of stochastic, or random, processes to understand, model and predict our climate system. One of the most important applications of this technique is in the representation of comprehensive climate models of processes which, although crucial, are too small or fast to be explicitly modelled. The book shows how stochastic methods can lead to improvements in climate simulation and prediction, compared with more conventional bulk-formula parameterization procedures. Beginning with expositions of the relevant mathematical theory, the book moves on to describe numerous practical applications. It covers the complete range of time scales of climate variability, from seasonal to decadal, centennial, and millennial. With contributions from leading experts in climate physics, this book is invaluable to anyone working on climate models, including graduate students and researchers in the atmospheric and oceanic sciences, numerical weather forecasting, climate prediction, climate modelling, and climate change.

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'With contributions from leading experts in climate physics, this book is invaluable to anyone working on climate models, including graduate students and researchers in the atmospheric and oceanic sciences, numerical weather forecasting, climate prediction, climate modelling and climate change.' The Eggs EGU Newsletter (the-eggs.org)
'[This] book does a very good job of reviewing the state of the art of stochastic physics in climate modeling, and can be wholeheartedly recommended to any researcher seriously interested in that line of research.' Philip Sura, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
'Stochastic Physics and Climate Modelling is a timely thought-provoking book on one of the most challenging and paradoxical scientific issues: stochastic physics may well be the key to substantial progress being made in climate change modelling and prediction, and to resolve the large uncertainties that exist. It is therefore a must for anyone having a keen interest in climate modelling, especially graduate students and researchers involved in climate studies.' Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics

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List of contributors	p. vii
Preface	p. xi
Mechanisms of climate variability from years to decades	p. 1
Empirical model reduction and the modelling hierarchy in climate dynamics and the geosciences	p. 35
An applied mathematics perspective on stochastic modelling for climate	p. 73
Predictability, in nonlinear dynamical systems with model uncertainty	p. 105
On modelling physical systems with stochastic models: diffusion versus Lévy processes	p. 133
First passage time analysis for climate prediction	p. 157
Effects of stochastic parameterisation on conceptual climate models	p. 191
Challenges in stochastic modelling of quasi-geostrophic turbulence	p. 207
Stochastic versus deterministic backscatter of potential enstrophy in geostrophic turbulence	p. 231
Stochastic theories for the irregularity of ENSO	p. 248
Stochastic models of the meridional overturning circulation: time scales and patterns of variability	p. 266
The Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation: a stochastic dynamical systems view	p. 287
Centennial-to-millennial-scale Holocene climate variability in .the North Atlantic region induced by noise	p. 307
Cloud-radiation interactions and their uncertainty in climate models	p. 327
Impact of a quasi-stochastic cellular automaton backscatter scheme on the systematic error and seasonal prediction skill of a global climate model	p. 375
Rethinking convective quasi-equilibrium: observational constraints for stochastic convective schemes in climate models	p. 396
Comparison of stochastic parameterisation approaches in a single-column model	p. 424
Stochastic parameterisation of multiscale processes using techniques from computer game physics	p. 446
Index	p. 464
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