Table of Contents

Subcommittee on Global Change Research, Participating Agencies and Executive Offices

Ad hoc Working Group on Climate Modeling

Foreword

Executive Summary

1. Background

2. Summary of Findings

3. Summary of recommen- dations

4. Final Comments

Charge to the Working Group 

Main Report

1. Purpose

2. Current Situation

3. Scope of Document / Underlying Definitions and Assumptions

4. Elements of Climate Science

5. Issues of Computational Systems

6. Human resources

7. Management / Business Practices / Institutional models

8. Recommen- dations

9. Reference Documents

10. Endnotes

Full Report (PDF)

National Academy Reports

• Capacity of U.S. Climate Modeling to Support Climate Change Assessment Activities (National Academy Press, 1998)
• Adequacy of Climate Observing Systems (National Academy Press, 1999)

Previous Reports and Reviews on U.S. Modeling

• The Accelerated Climate Prediction Initiative: Bringing the Promise of Simulation to the Challenge of Climate Change (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, June 1998)
• JASON Review of Advanced Climate Prediction Initiative (S. E. Koonin, Reporting Author, August 10, 1998)
• Report on the NSF/NCEP Workshop on "Global Weather and Climate Modeling" (D. L. Williamson, NCAR, Lead Author, 24 February 1999)
• Recommended Implementation of Accelerated Climate Prediction Initiative (ACPI) (W. L. Gates, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Lead Author, April 1999)

Reference on data usage

• Errico, R. M., Workshop on Assimilation of Satellite Data, Bull. Amer. Met. Soc., 80, 463-471, 1999

Suggested reference on organizational and business models

• Senge, P. et al. The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook: Strategies and Tools for Building a Learning Organization (Doubleday, 1994).

References on computational issues

• Christensen, C. M., The Innovators Dilemma, Harper Business, 2000
• Top 500 Supercomputer Sites.  Compilation of the top 500 supercomputer facilities in the world.
• Testimony of Professor Ken Kennedy (Director of the Center for Research on Parallel Computation at Rice University and Ann and John Doerr Professor of Computer Science) before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science, Subcommittee on Basic Research, 6 October 1998, Hearings on the President's Information Technology Advisory Committee, Interim Report to the President.