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A WIDESPREAD and increasing degree of attention is being paid to the problem of understanding the physical factors which lead to climatic change. Analysis of past weather data1 derived from a wide variety of sources has shown how the main characteristics of climate have changed over recent centuries. If, however, scientific theories are to be developed, it is desirable that mathematical models of climate be constructed. These must include at least the primary global scale dynamics of the atmosphere and should allow the operation of necessary long time-period integrations on available computers.
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GORDON, H., DAVIES, D. Mathematical prediction of climatic change. Nature 253, 419–420 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1038/253419b0
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