But even today, with currently one of the most powerful computer systems worldwide used for earth system research, the resolution and fidelity of climate simulations are still constrained
by computational limitations.
Ecologists have long known that other types of randomness influence population dynamics, but
computational limitations in the early 20th century forced scientists to simplify traditional models.
According to Beven, some of the key difficulties with modelling
include computational limitations, limited measurement techniques, and «uncertainty about uncertainty estimation».
R has
a computational limitation for p - values lower than 2.2e - 16, as such, where values this small were reported we wrote «p = 0».
Due to
computational limitations, however, these GCMs are unable to explicitly model atmospheric phenomena less than 100 kilometers in size.
In fact, a quick analysis of the models illustrates that, contrary to Wood's claims, the existing state - of - the - art general circulation models (GCMs) are quite sophisticated given
the computational limitations.
One obvious weakness of Schmittner et al's paper is that due to
computational limitations, they only used a fairly simple climate model, which didn't seem to fit the data all that well.