Frontiers of climate modeling

1. Overview of climate modeling / J. T. Kiehl

2. Climate-change modeling : a brief history of the theory and recent twenty-first-century ensemble simulations / W. M. Washington, A. Dai and G. A. Meehl

3. Energy-balance climate models / G. R. North and M. J. Stevens

4. Intrinsic climatic variability : an essay on modes and mechanisms of oceanic and atmospheric fluid dynamics / J. C. McWilliams

5. radiative forcing due to clouds and water vapor / V. Ramanathan and A. Inamdar

6. model study of the effect of Pinatubo volcanic aerosols on stratospheric temperatures / V. Ramaswamy, S. Ramachandran, G. Stenchikov and A. Robock

7. Unresolved issues in atmospheric solar absorption / W. D. Collins

8. Cloud feedbacks / D. A. Randall, M. E. Schlesinger, V. Galin, V. Meleshko, J.-J. Morcette and R. Wetherald

9. Water-vapor feedback / D. H. Rind

10. Water-vapor observations / B. J. Soden

11. New frontiers in remote sensing of aerosols and their radiative forcing of climate / Y. J. Kaufman, L. A. Remer and D. Tanre

12. Cloud-climate feedback : lessons learned from two El Nino events / M. Zhang

13. Runaway greenhouses and runaway glaciations : how stable in Earth's climate? / J. F. Kasting.