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Climate dynamics is a relatively new member of the family of geophysical sciences. Descriptive climatology goes back, of course, at least to the ancient Greeks, who realized the importance of the Sun’s mean zenith angle in determining the climate of a given latitude belt, as well as that of land-sea distribution in determining the regional, zonally asymmetric characteristics of climate. The general human perception of climate change is also preserved in numerous written records throughout history, starting with the floods described in the epic of Gilgamesh and in the Bible.
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Ghil, M., Childress, S. (1987). Radiation Balance and Equilibrium Models. In: Topics in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics: Atmospheric Dynamics, Dynamo Theory, and Climate Dynamics. Applied Mathematical Sciences, vol 60. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1052-8_10
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