References
- Dennis L. Hartmann (1994) Global Physical Climatology,
Academic Press, San Diego, CA.
Includes a great deal on the albedos of planet Earth, plus a compact discussion of DaisyWorld with exercises that inspired DaisyBall. Highly technical.
- James Lovelock (1988)
The Ages of Gaia : A Biography of Our Living Earth, Norton, New York.
Lovelock's book length treatment of the Gaia hypothesis includes his explanation of what DaisyWorld means. Popular audience.
- Andrew J.Watson and James E. Lovelock (1983) Biological homeostasis of the
global environment: the parable of Daisyworld.
Tellus 35B: 284-289.
This is the basic paper describing DaisyWorld. Careful study of the figures shows that CourseWare's results and Watson & Lovelock's do not match exactly. However, CourseWare's results do match those of Wong, below. Technical.
- Ken Wong (1996) Laboratory #5: solving the Daisy World equations with
adaptive stepsize control.
PDF
This implementation doesn't use the Runge-Kutta methods explored in Wong's lab, but his writeup on DaisyWorld is good, and on-line. Technical.
- My original implementations of DaisyWorld and DaisyBall far pre-date Wikipedia, but there are now good articles on Wikipedia for DaisyWorld, the Gaia hypothesis, etc.