"Boundary conditions" refers to the limitations or rules that are set at the edges or limits of a system or situation. These conditions define the framework within which something can occur and often influence the behavior or outcomes within that system.
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It can't come from other variables expect
as boundary conditions since the future behavior of those other variables would not be known.
The long - term predictability of such systems is difficult
if boundary conditions change or can not be precisely determined in the first place — just consider the weather forecast!
The climate of a model can be easily defined in terms of the limit of the statistics of the model output as the integration time tends to infinity, under
prescribed boundary conditions.
Here, the same model run is repeated several times with different starting conditions but with the
same boundary conditions, such as a prescribed change in the chemical composition of the atmosphere.
The current processes used for testing and installation are unable to take all the local
boundary conditions into account.
For those thinking this is some kind of climate madness, it's simply physics basics — draw up a problem with
simple boundary conditions and find the answer.
An initial analysis of the requested display active area and the pixel density (as well as a few
other boundary conditions) informs the decision about the appropriate display platform.
An ensemble of four simulations was forced with lateral
boundary conditions from ECMWF global analyses for the period 8 - 22 August 1988.
Jenkins, A., H.H. Hellmer, and D.M. Holland, The role of meltwater advection in the formulation of conservative
boundary conditions at an ice - ocean interface, Journal of Physical Oceanography, 31 (1), 285 - 296, 2001.
On the other hand, changes in
surface boundary conditions such as sea surface temperature (SST) anomalies in the tropics (Hoerling et al. 2001, 2004; Bracco et al. 2004), winds in the stratosphere (Scaife et al. 2014; Kidston et al. 2015), and radiative changes associated with increasing GHG concentrations (Selten et al. 2004; Deser et al. 2012) may also influence the NAO.
There is a fundamental limitation to RCMs, as they are constrained by the coarse resolution
boundary conditions provided by the GCMs (which tend to favour a more El Nino like state on average).
Forest (2006) states: «It is not possible to estimate the true climate system variability on century time - scales from observations and therefore, climate models are run with
fixed boundary conditions for thousands of years to obtain estimates of the climate variability.»
Both RCMs use lateral
boundary conditions derived from the ERA - Interim reanalysis and share the same dynamical core but use different nesting strategies, land - surface and physics schemes.
We conclude that ENSO was sensitive to changes in
climate boundary conditions during the Holocene, including, but not limited to insolation.
It is in the nature of technological reason to maximize results and minimize costs.4 The decision - makers who are in charge of a given organization or task may specify
boundary conditions which forbid certain means.
Boundary conditions include (1) a definition of the system or organization that is to be taken into account, (2) the time limits that are to be observed, and (3) the goals to be reached and the means allowable to reach them.
As the higher level
imposes boundary conditions on the lower processes, the latter may continue blindly and independently of the comprehensive net flung by the former.
However,
bottom boundary conditions in soil components of GCMs, particularly those used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, only extend 10 meters (33 feet) below ground, perhaps leading to underestimations of continental heat absorption.