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Contributors. Foreword Preface A Arakawa -- Personal Perspective on the Early Years of General Circulation Modeling at UCLA. P.N. Edwards -- A Brief History of Atmospheric General Circulation Modeling. J.M. Lewis -- Clarifying the Dynamics of the General Circulation: Phillips's 1956 Experiment. J. Hansen, et al. -- Climate Modeling in the Global Warming Debate. M. Halem, J Kouatchou, A. Hudson -- A Retrospective Analysis of the Pioneering Data Assimilation Experiments with the Mintz-Arakawa General Circulation Model. W. Schubert -- A Retrospective View of Arakawa's Ideas on Cumulus Parameterization. A. Kasahara -- On the Origin of Cumulus Parameterization for Numerical Prediction Models. K. Emanuel -- Quasi-Equilibrium Thinking. S. Moorthi -- Application of Relaxed Arakawa-Schubert Cumulus Parameterization t the NCEP Climate Model: Some Sensitivity Experiments. M. Ghil & A.W. Robertson -- Solving Problems with GCMs: General Circulation Models and Their Role in the Climate Modeling HierarchyA. Hollingsworth -- Prospects for Development of Medium-Range and Extended-Range Forecasts. T. Tokioka -- Climate Services at the Japan Meteorological Agency Using a General Circulation Model: Dynamical One-Month Prediction. F. Mesinger -- Numerical Methods: The Arakawa Approach, Horizontal Grid, Global, and Limited-Area Modeling. J.C. McWilliams -- Formulation of Oceanic General Circulation Models. N. Zeng, et al. -- Climate and Variability in the First Quasi-Equilibrium Tropical Circulation Model. A. Sumi -- Climate Simulation Studies at CCSR. D.A. Randall, R. Heikes, T. Ringer -- Global Atmospheric Modeling Using a Geodesic Grid with an Isentropic Vertical Coordinate. C.R. Mechoso, J. Yu, A. Arakawa -- A Coupled GCM Pilgrimage: From Climate Catastrophe to ENSO Simulations. C. Moeng, B. Stevens -- Representing the Stratocumulus-Topped Boundary Layer in GCMs. S.K. Krueger -- Cloud System Modeling. R.C.J. Somerville -- Using Single-Column Models to Improve Cloud-Radiation Parameterizations. D.R. Johnson -- Entropy, the Lorenz Energy Cycle, and Climate. A. Arakawa -- Future Development of General Circulation Models. Index.