William D. Sellers

William D. Sellers
Born(1928-08-18)August 18, 1928
Culver City, California, United States
DiedAugust 27, 2014(2014-08-27) (aged 86)
Tucson, Arizona, United States
Alma materUCLA (B.A.)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.S.; ScD, 1957)
Known forNumerical Weather Prediction
Meteorology
Climatology
Scientific career
FieldsMeteorology
InstitutionsUniversity of Arizona
Doctoral advisorEdward Lorenz

William D. Sellers (18 August 1928 – 27 August 2014)[1] was an American meteorologist, climate scientist, and pioneer of climate modelling. He created one the earliest climate models[2] and was one of the first scientists to recognize the effects of CO2 in the atmosphere on the Earth's climate.[3] He published the textbook "Physical Climatology".

  1. ^ "In Memoriam: Gordon Tullock and William Sellers". UA@Work. The University of Arizona. Retrieved 8 February 2016.
  2. ^ Sellers, William (1969). "A global climatic model based on the energy balance of the earth-atmosphere system". Journal of Applied Meteorology. 8 (3). AMS: 392–400. Bibcode:1969JApMe...8..392S. doi:10.1175/1520-0450(1969)008<0392:AGCMBO>2.0.CO;2.
  3. ^ Sellers, William D. (1974). "A reassessment of the effect of CO2 viariations on a simple global climatic model". Journal of Applied Meteorology. 13 (7): 831–833. Bibcode:1974JApMe..13..831S. doi:10.1175/1520-0450(1974)013<0831:AROTEO>2.0.CO;2.