Sentences with phrase «climate over the entire planet»
Global climate models (GCM) are designed to simulate earth's climate over the entire planet, but they have a limitation when it comes to describing local details due to heavy computational demands.
http://www.realclimate.org/ Not exact matches
They need to know: what a GHG is and how the GHE works; the carbon cycle; how climate has changed over the entire geologic history of the planet; how the climate has changed recently (relatively speaking); the main variables of climate like temperature, rainfall, etc.; the role of the sun, atmosphere and oceans on climate.
When compared to the task of predicting how the entire planet's climate will be behaving 50 to 100 years from now, predicting hurricanes in one small corner of the world over the next five years is surely far more manageable.
And because the polar regions are the most sensitive to, and indicative of, the perils of climate change, we can have good reason to fear that the entire planet will topple over the tipping point as well.
From the entire record one can see that CO2 has not been the major driver of our planet's climate over geological time.