Dr. Sellers wrote the first, and still one of the only, textbooks on physical climatology and developed one of the first numerical models of climate. He has seen both fields grow from small beginnings to major research efforts that now exist throughout the world in climate modeling and global change.
Selected Publications:
Naegele, P. S. and W. D. Sellers, 1981: A study of visibility in eighteen cities in the western and southwestern United States. Monthly Weather Rev., 109, 2394-2400.
Sellers, W. D., 1983: A quasi-three-dimensional climate model. J. Climate and Appl. Met., 22, 1557-1574.
Sellers, W.D., 1984: The response of a climate model to orbital variations. Milankovich and Climate, Part 2, A.L. Berger et al (eds.), pp 765-788. Szymber, R.J. and W.D. Sellers, 1985: Atmospheric turbidity at Tucson, Arizona 1956-83: variations and their causes. J. Climate and Appl. Met., 24, 725-734.
Sellers, W. D., 1985: The effect of a solar perturbation on a global climate model. J. Climate and Appl. Met., 24, 770-776.
Sellers, W.D. and S. F. Kirby, 1987: Cold air drainage and urban heating in Tucson, Arizona. J. Arizona-Nevada Acad. of Sci., 22, 123-128.
Andrade, E.R. and W.D. Sellers, 1988: El Nin=FE and its effect on precipitation in Arizona and western New Mexico. J. Climatology, 8, 403-410.
Sellers, W.D. and Wen Liu, 1988: Temperature patterns and trends in the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere. J. Climate, 1, 573-581.
Sellers, W.D., 1989: The genesis of energy balance modeling and the cool sun paradox. Global and Planetary Change, 82, 217-224.
Walsh, K.J. and W.D. Sellers, 1993: Response of a global climate model to a thirty percent reduction of the solar constant. Global and Planetary Change, 8, 219-230.