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Part I. Introduction: 1. Introduction to climate modeling; 2. Humancomponents of the climate system; Part II. The Science: Subsystems andProcesses: 3. The atmosphere; 4. The ocean circulation; 5. Land surface; 6.Terrestrial ecosystems; 7. Atmospheric chemistry; 8. Marine biogeochemistry;Part III. Modeling and Parameterization: 9. Climate system simulation: basicnumerical and computational concepts; 10. Atmospheric general circulationmodeling; 11. Ocean general circulation modeling; 12. Sea ice models; 13.Land, ice and climate; 14. Biophysical models of land surface processes; 15.Chemistry transport methods; 16. Biogeochemical ocean models; Part IV.Couplings and Interactions: 17. Global coupled models: atmosphere, ocean, seaice; 18. Tropical Pacific ENSO models: ENSO as a mode of the coupled system;Part V. Sensitivity Experiments and Applications: 19. Climate variabilitysimulated in GCMs; 20. Climate-model responses to increased CO2 and othergreenhouse gases; 21. Modeling large climatic changes of the past; 22.Changes in land use; Part VI. Future Prospects: 23. Climate system modelingprospects.