Randall D.A. (ed). General Circulation Model Development: Past, Present, and Future

International Geophysics Series, 2000, Volume 70. Academic Press, New York, London, 2000. – 848 pp.
The volume you now hold in your hands is not the usual collection of miscellaneous papers from an office drawer, hastily collected by friends anxious to honor an admired and respected fellow scientist. Instead, this book consists of papers especially prepared for presentation at the January 1998 Arakawa Retirement Symposium. This favors us with substantial and appreciative assessments of Akio Arakawa's contributions and their applications. But we also have his personal account of how he approached the two subjects in which his contributions were of the first rank: his physically guided formulation of the finite-difference methods used in numerical simulations of fluid motions, and a ground-breaking treatment of the mutual interaction between convective clouds and the surrounding atmosphere. I think this volume is especially valuable for these insights.Foreword.
A Personal Perspective on the Early Years of General Circulation Modeling at UCLA / Akio Arakawa
A Brief History of Atmospheric General Circulation Modeling / Paul N. Edwards
Clarifying the Dynamics of the General Circulation: Phillips's 1956 Experiment / John M. Lewis
Climate Modeling in the Global Warming Debate / Hansen, R. Ruedy, A. Lads, M. Sato, L. Nazarenko, N. Tausnev, I. Tegen, and D. Koch
A Retrospective Analysis of the Pioneering Data Assimilation Experiments with the Mintz -Arakawa General Circulation Model / Milton Halem, Jules Kouatchou, and Andrea Hudson
On the Origin of Cumulus Parameterization for Numerical Prediction Models / Akira Kasahara
Quasi-Equilibrium Thinking / Kerry Emanuel
Application of Relaxed Arakawa-Schubert Cumulus Parameterization to the NCEP Climate Model: Some Sensitivity Experiments / Shrinivas Moorthi
Solving Problems with GCMs: General Circulation Models and Their Role in the Climate Modeling Hierarchy / Michael Ghil and Andrew W. Robertson
Prospects for Development of Medium-Range and Extended-Range Forecasts / Anthony Hollingsworth
Climate Services at the Japan Meteorological Agency Using a General Circulation Model: Dynamical One-Month Prediction / Tatsushi Tokioka
Numerical Methods: The Arakawa Approach, Horizontal Grid, Global, and Limited-Area Modeling / Fedor Mesinger
Formulation of Oceanic General Circulation Models / James C. McWilliams
Climate Simulation Studies at CCSR / Akimasa Sumi
Global Atmospheric Modeling Using a Geodesic Grid with an Isentropic Vertical Coordinate / David A. Randall, Ross Heikes, and Todd Ringer
A Coupled GCM Pilgrimage: From Climate Catastrophe to ENSO Simulations / Carlos R, Mechoso, Jin-Yi Yu, and Akio Arakawa
Representing the Stratocumulus-Topped Boundary Layer in GCMs / Chin-Hoh Moeng and Bjorn Stevens
Cloud System Modeling / Steven K. Krueger
Using Single-Column Models to Improve Cloud-Radiation Parameterizations / Richard С J. Somerville
Entropy, the Lorenz Energy Cycle, and Climate / Donald R. Johnson
Future Development of General Circulation Models / Akio Arakawa