But now, according to Dr Cai and an international team of scientists and
climate modellers from China, Australia, Hawaii and New Jersey in the US, Peru, Paris and Exeter in the UK, such a double whammy could occur every 13 years.
This cultural flexibility may have been the key to success for modern humans, says a team of international researchers, made up of archaeologists, paleo climatologists, and
climate modellers from the French CNRS1 and the EPHE PSL Research University, Bergen University as well as Wits University.
Not exact matches
«If that's the case then we can't rely on some magical, benevolent thermostat that is just going to kick in and keep the tropics
from heating up,» says
climate modeller Matthew Huber of Purdue University in Lafayette, Indiana.
«However, it is the bringing together of observations by ecologists, theory
from biologists, physics
from land surface
modellers and
climate science in the global modeling, that is revolutionary.»
«If we assume an optimistic scenario for greenhouse gas emissions — the RCP 2.6 scenario, [see Fact Box] which would result in a warming of about two degrees Celsius — then we can expect an increase in sea level similar to what we see in this video,» says
climate modeller Martin Stendel
from the Danish Meteorological Institute, Copenhagen.
The graph was greeted with sneers and chuckles
from the mainly
climate modeller audience — why??
It is really about time that
climate modellers who are posting on this blog came down
from their ivory towers and had a look at the real world.
Re # 31
from Lynn, where she congratulates the
climate modellers on a job well done.
For 15 years the prediction of warming resulting
from a doubling of CO2 has varied by 300 %
from 1.5 to 4.5 K. For 15 years the
climate modellers have been claiming it will take them 15 years to get the clouds and aerosols right.
Scientists Dr Gerard Roe and Professor Marcia Baker,
from the University of Washington in Seattle, have now produced a mathematical equation for
climate modellers designed to take uncertainty into account.
• Contrary to the common practice of
climate modellers and IPCC, here comparisons are made in terms of actual values and not departures
from means («anomalies»).
Computer
modellers from other fields to check GCMs are being done right, statisticians to check that the
climate scientists sums are being done right, physicists to check the physics, mathematicians to check the maths, technicians to check the equipment being used to make observations that constitute the data.
The reason for the neutrality problem, as you can see
from the Talk Page, is William Connelley — who is, amongst his other duties a Wikipedia Admin (which he abuses as much as he dares), an admin on RealClimate, a
climate modeller at the British Antarctic Survey (obviously consuming a very small part of his time), and a political candidate for the Green Party in the UK.
The reason for the neutrality problem, as you can see
from the Talk Page, is William Connelley — who is, amongst his other duties a Wikipedia Admin (which he abuses as much as he dares), an admin on RealClimate, a
climate modeller at the British Antarctic Survey
Moreover, the availability of the output
from climate models and the advisability of using
climate model results at particular scales,
from the point of view of the
climate modellers, ultimately determines what scales can and should be used.
The area is important to
climate modellers trying to predict the effect of freshwater influx
from the melting Greenland icecap.
Since Judith asked for experiences
from other fields it struck me that advanced history - matching and upscaling technologies used in number crunching reservoir simulation may be of interest for
climate modellers.