Sentences with phrase «current global climate simulations»
The following figures show effective global climate forcings employed in our current global climate simulations (e.g., Hansen et al. 2007a, b), relative to their values in 1880.
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Unfortunately, current simulation models, which combine global climate models with aerosol transport models, consistently underestimate the amount of these aerosols in the Arctic compared to actual measurements during the spring and winter seasons, making it difficult to accurately assess the impact of these substances on the climate.
Simulations by Cristina Archer at the University of Delaware in Newark and Ken Caldeira of Stanford University in California suggest that extracting enough energy from high - level winds to meet all our current energy demands would have no significant impact on global climate.
Because ocean currents play a major role in transporting the planet's heat and carbon, the ECCO simulations are being used to understand the ocean's influence on global climate and the melting of ice in polar regions.
That this signal is not seen in climate model simulations may partially explain the models» inability to simulate the current stagnation in global surface temperatures.
They are tuned to produce a credible simulation of current global climate statistics, but this does not guarantee reliability in future climate regimes.