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Climatic change
Author(s) -
Gates W. Lawrence,
Imbrie John
Publication year - 1975
Publication title -
reviews of geophysics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 8.087
H-Index - 156
eISSN - 1944-9208
pISSN - 8755-1209
DOI - 10.1029/rg013i003p00726
Subject(s) - climate change , documentation , scale (ratio) , climatology , variety (cybernetics) , climate model , distribution (mathematics) , environmental science , physical geography , environmental resource management , geography , geology , computer science , cartography , oceanography , artificial intelligence , programming language , mathematical analysis , mathematics
During the past 4 years, interest in the problem of climatic change has increased greatly, owing in part to growing recognition of its impact on human affairs. This has been matched by a surge of scientific research on nearly all aspects of the problem, especially the areas of climatic data analysis and climatic modeling for both present and past climates. During this period the large‐scale distribution of the global climate was successfully simulated by a variety of numerical models, and extensive efforts are underway to further improve their accuracy. Climate models have also been used in new diagnoses of the mechanisms of both past and possible future climatic changes, an activity which has underscored the need for more complete documentation of both recent instrumentally observed climatic changes and those inferred from historical and paleoclimatic sources.