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“Climate Mathematics is an engaging work that provides students of climate science with the most essential mathematical and computational
tools of the trade. This may well prove the most useful text they will encounter on the road to becoming climate scientists.”
- KERRY A. EMANUEL, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“Combining traditional techniques with the judicious use of computer codes, Shen and Somerville show how mathematics is intimately connected
with the science, and how it can be used to address climate problems occurring in the real world. The book is user-friendly for the beginner,
but pays due attention to detail for the more advanced student. Taken with the extensive online resources, it brings a fresh new perspective to our
curriculum that students and instructors will surely value.”
- GEOFFREY VALLIS, University of Exeter
“This book provides a timely introduction to the mathematical approaches and statistical techniques that students will need
to understand climate change and how to respond to its impacts. I especially like how it gets students into using the
important programming capabilities of R and Python to do such analyses. Climate Mathematics is a wonderful
resource – one I will use myself and recommend to all of our students.”
- DONALD J. WUEBBLES, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Citation: Shen, S.S.P., and R.C.J. Somerville, 2019: Climate Mathematics: Theory and Applications,
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 391pp.
About the authors:
Samuel S. P. Shen is Distinguished Professor of Mathematics and Statistics at San Diego State University,
and Visiting Research Mathematician at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California,
San Diego. Formerly, he was McCalla Professor of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences at the University
of Alberta, Canada, and President of the Canadian Applied and Industrial Mathematics Society. He has held
visiting positions at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, the NOAA Climate Prediction Center, and the
University of Tokyo. Shen holds a B.Sc. degree in Engineering Mechanics from Nanjing University of Science
and Technology, and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Applied Mathematics from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Richard C. J. Somerville is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Scripps Institution of Oceanography,
University of California, San Diego. He is a fellow of three scientific societies: the American Association
for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the American Geophysical Union (AGU), and the American Meteorological
Society (AMS). He has received awards from the AMS for his research and his popular book The Forgiving Air:
Understanding Environmental Change. From the AGU, he has received two major honors, the Climate Communication
Prize (2015) and the Ambassador Award (2017). Somerville holds a B.Sc. degree in Meteorology from Pennsylvania
State University, and a Ph.D. degree in Meteorology from New York University.