• Title: The climate modelling primer, 4th ed.
  • Authors: by Kendal McGuffie and Ann Henderson-Sellers
  • Year: 2014
  • Publisher: Wiley
  • Pages: 431+
  • ISBN: 978-1-119-99336-5
  • Research Gate cover image: Link.
  • Contents: The chapters cover why we need to model climate, the evolution of climate models, energy balance models, models of intermediate complexity, coupled general circulation models, an overview of the work covered in the book and an attempt to put it in the context of global warming.

    Although this book is far from comprehensive it is suitable as an introductory undergraduate course text or for personal study. It is richly illustrated but short on computatonal examples. (The third edition used the ancient language BASIC with heavy use of Go to instructions, and this time its EXCEL, graphics and all.)

    The third edition can be found as a PDF freely available on the web.