Mathematics and Climate
$257.87
- Paperback
332 pages
- Release Date
21 August 2026
Summary
Winner of the Atmospheric Science Librarians International Choice Award as the best book of 2013, Mathematics and Climate emphasizes conceptual models that capture critical components of Earth’s climate system and answers how and why certain phenomena happen. These models (energy balance-models and temperature distributions, ocean circulation patterns, ice caps and glaciation cycles, etc.) are used to introduce methods from applied mathematics, with emphasis on dynamical systems, bif…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781611978872 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1611978874 |
| Author: | Hans G. Kaper, Hans Engler |
| Publisher: | Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics,U.S. |
| Imprint: | Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics,U.S. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 332 |
| Release Date: | 21 August 2026 |
Hans G. Kaper
Hans Kaper is affiliated with Georgetown University and is the editor-in-chief of SIAM News and the SIAM Book series on Mathematical Modeling and Computation. He spent most of his professional career at Argonne National Laboratory and served as Program Director for Applied Mathematics at the National Science Foundation. He is a Corresponding Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences, a 2009 SIAM Fellow, and a 2023 AAAS Fellow. He is the (co-)author of four books and more than 100 articles in refereed journals. He served on the SIAM Committee on Science Policy and was Chair of the SIAM Activity Group on Dynamical Systems and founding Chair of the SIAM Activity Group on Mathematics of Planet Earth.
Hans Engler is Professor of Mathematics at Georgetown University and former Department Chair. He served as Program Director for Applied Mathematics at the National Science Foundation and as chair of the SIAM Activity Group on Mathematics of Planet Earth. He has also done mathematical and statistical consulting work with government agencies and private companies.
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