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The classical physics with its fundamental principles and laws is in the basis of the contemporary weather and climate theories. The weather is defined as momentary state of the system Atmosphere–Land–Ocean (ALO). In this chapter, the development of the numerical method for deterministic weather forecasting is traced out and the main reasons leading to limited predictability are outlined. The climate is defined as a statistical ensemble of the ALO-system states for a long enough period of time τc (≈30 years). The role of physics in the climate studies has two aspects:
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Quantitative reconstruction of the past climate of our planet;
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Development of theories and methods capable of reproducing the past climate events and of predicting future ones.
Special attention is paid to the possibility for numerical experiments with climatic models and to discovery of local and regional manifestation of the global climatic changes. The Bulgarian contribution to these current problems of physics and of the contemporary science in general, is also mentioned.
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Panchev, S., Spassova, T. (2010). Weather and Climate – Difficult Science Problems. In: Alexandrov, V., Gajdusek, M., Knight, C., Yotova, A. (eds) Global Environmental Change: Challenges to Science and Society in Southeastern Europe. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-8695-2_1
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