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An introduction to simple climate models used in the IPCC Second Assessment report. IPCC technical paper II.

An introduction to simple climate models used in the IPCC Second Assessment report. IPCC technical paper II./ Introduction aux modèles climatiques simples employés dans le deuxième rapport d'évaluation du GIEC. Document technique II du GIEC.

Author(s) : IPCC, WMO, ONU Environnement (ex-PNUE), HOUGHTON J. T., MEIRA-FILHO L. G., GRIGGS D. J., MASKELL K.

Type of monograph: Report

Summary

This technical paper is the second paper of the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) prepared in response to a request from the United National Framework Convention on Climate Change. Extract from the table of contents: climate and the climate system (human perturbations to the composition of the atmosphere; cloud, surface and dynamical interactions; radiative forcing, and climate sensitivity); simulating climatic change; simple climate models used in the IPCC Second Assessment report; comparison of surface temperature changes and ocean thermal expansion as simulated by atmosphere-ocean general circulation models and simple climate models.

Details

  • Original title: An introduction to simple climate models used in the IPCC Second Assessment report. IPCC technical paper II./ Introduction aux modèles climatiques simples employés dans le deuxième rapport d'évaluation du GIEC. Document technique II du GIEC.
  • Record ID : 1998-2063
  • Languages: English
  • Subject: Environment, General information
  • Publication: IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) - Switzerland/Switzerland
  • Publication date: 1997/02
  • Number: 2
  • ISBN: 9291691011
  • Source: Source: 50 p. (21.5 x 27.9); fig.; tabl.; append.
  • Document available for consultation in the library of the IIR headquarters only.

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