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List of contributors | |
Preface | |
Foreword | |
Acknowledgements | |
The Global Energy and Water Cycles | |
The global energy cycle | |
The global water cycle | |
Global Atmospheric Models, Data Assimilation and Applications to the Energy and Water Cycles | |
Atmospheric models for weather prediction and climate simulations | |
Numerical approximations for global atmospheric models | |
Parameterization of subgrid-scale processes | |
Principles of data assimilation | |
Estimation of the global energy and water cycle from global data assimilation | |
Coupled atmosphere-ocean modeling for climate simulation and prediction | |
Atmospheric Processes and their Large-Scale Effects | |
Radiative effects of clouds and water vapour | |
Effects of aerosols on clouds and radiation | |
Vertical transport processes | |
Precipitating cloud systems | |
Surface and Sub-Surface Precipitation | |
Estimating surface precipitation | |
Air-sea fluxes and their estimation | |
The ocean's response to the freshwater cycle | |
Physical and physiological feedback constraining evaporation from land surfaces | |
Soil water | |
Surface runoff and subsurface redistribution of water | |
Use of Small-Scale Models and Observational Data to Investigate Coupled Processes | |
Mesoscale field experiments and models | |
Cloud-resolving models | |
Examples of the Use of GCMs to Investigate Effects of Coupled Processes | |
The interaction of convective and turbulent fluxes in general circulation models | |
Soil moisture-precipitation interaction: experience with two land surface schemes in the ECWMF model | |
Continental-Scale Water Budgets | |
Estimating evaporation-minus-precipitation as a residual of the atmospheric water budget | |
Factors determining the partitioning of precipitation into evaporation and runoff | |
The water budget of a middle latitude continental region: a modelling and observational study | |
Estimating large scale run-off | |
The Way Forward | |
Toward an integrated land-atmosphere-ocean hydrology | |
Index | |
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