NEWS RELEASE: December 5, 2007

Contact: Kevin Hamilton 808-956-8327 kph@hawaii.edu

Gisela Speidel 808-956-9252 gspeidel@hawaii.edu

UH Manoa Professor Publishes Book on
Latest Advances in Climate Modeling

Honolulu - Professor Kevin Hamilton, with the International Pacific Research Center and the Meteorology Department  at UH, and his colleague Dr. Wataru Ohfuchi, group leader at the JAMSTEC Earth Simulator Center in Yokohama, Japan, edited High Resolution Numerical Modelling of the Atmosphere and Ocean."

This book presents exciting recent developments in simulations of the flow in the atmosphere and the ocean with computer models that have very fine-resolution representations. The construction during the last few years of exceptionally powerful computers, such as the Earth Simulator in Japan and newer competitors in the USA and Europe, have spurred progress by making the development of these computationally challenging models possible. Fifteen papers from leading scientists throughout the world discuss results of simulations with atmospheric, ocean, or coupled atmosphere-ocean models of the climate system. The findings have application to daily weather forecasting and to the simulation of longer-period climate variations.

High Resolution Numerical Modelling of the Atmosphere and Ocean is available at the publisher’s website

http://www.springer.com/west/home/generic/search/results?SGWID=4-40109-22-173670254-0.

The International Pacific Research Center (IPRC) of the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST) at the University of Hawai`i at Manoa, is a climate research center founded to gain greater understanding of the climate system and the nature and causes of climate variation in the Asia-Pacific region and how global climate changes may affect the region. Established under the “U.S.-Japan Common Agenda for Cooperation in Global Perspective” in October 1997, the IPRC is a collaborative effort between agencies in Japan and the United States.