Sentences with phrase «initializing decadal climate»

Like weather forecasts — initialized decadal climate modelling might indeed be possible — but these are orders of magnitude more difficult than weather forecasts.

Not exact matches

Further, just as seasonal - to - interannual predictions start from an estimate of the state of the climate system, there is a growing realization that decadal and longer - term climate predictions could be initialized with estimates of the current observed state of the atmosphere, oceans, cryosphere, and land surface.

He then writes» we need climate observations to initialize the models to forecast variations up to decadal time scales».