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Manabe's Nobel citation highlights his role in "the physical modelling of Earth's climate, quantifying variability, and reliably predicting global warming." Book review - Beyond Global Warming: How Numerical Models Revealed the Secrets of Climate Change. I started my own academic journey with the intention of entering a "traditional" field within physics, but switched to climate science during my graduate studies when I was introduced to the world of climate modeling. [Extracted from the article]

This semi-popular book should be compelling reading for scientists of all stripes, in that while it is beyond a non-scientific audience, it is designed to be accessible to the wide scientific audience who, while they are engaged in their own highly specialised areas, are nonetheless interested in weather and climate. The central theme of the book is that the traditional division of meteorology into weather and climate is wrong, and should be superseded by the three in the title. Chapter 4 starts to discuss applications and results, beginning with turbulence as observed from aircraft and proceeding through macroweather to climate scales. [Extracted from the article]