Understanding Past Climates: Modelling Ancient Weather
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Computer Climate Models are essential tools for understanding environmental change but the results of modelling exercises are seldom accessible to the wider community of teachers and researchers on their desktop machines. This CD ROM presents the results of a series of simulations of global climate for the Carboniferous (300Ma) through the Mesozoic (150, 95 and 70Ma), Tertiary (55 and 15Ma) and Quaternary (115, 21 and 6 Ka) to Present Day and enhanced greenhouse effect simulations (2 x CO2) for surface temperature, soil moisture, precipitation, cloud cover, surface pressure, wind strengths, storminess, and snow depth in up to three projection modes: Rectilinear, Mollweide and Polar. The results are displayed as a series of user controllable movies, selected via a sequence of menus, and two sets of results can be compared on screen. These results are accompanied by illustrated and animated background information detailing the assumptions built in to the model runs, the way climate models work, the st
Understanding Past Climates: Modelling Ancient Weather,P. Valdes,Taylor & Francis,905699252X,Earth Sciences - Meteorology & Climatology,Environmental Science,Paleoclimatology,Paleontology,Science,Science/Mathematics,Software - Science - CDROM / Universal,Climatology,Historical geography,Science / Environmental Science
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