Rand/ARPA Climate Dynamics Research: Executive Summary and Final Report

Abstract

The history of the Rand/ARPA Dynamics of Climate Project is briefly reviewed, and an overview is given of the project's principal research activities, including significant accomplishments in the areas of atmospheric and oceanic modeling, climatic experimentation and analysis, assembly of climatic data, and programming and use of the Illiac-IV computer. A preliminary assessment is made of future research needs.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1977
Accession Number
ADA035328

Entities

People

  • W. L. Gates

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Boundary Layer
  • Climate Change
  • Climatic Processes
  • Clouds
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Databases
  • Environmental Security
  • Heat Energy
  • Information Processing
  • Physical Theories
  • Sea Ice
  • Sea Surface Temperature
  • Security
  • Simulations
  • Statistical Analysis

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Modeling, Data Assimilation, and Flux Boundary Layers
  • Oceanography.
  • Technical Research and Report Writing.