Previous attempts to estimate this planetary imbalance
relied on climate models rather than observations because sufficiently detailed observations were not available then.
They had even collaborated
on climate models with noted academics and published papers in peer - reviewed journals.
These attribution calculations
depend on climate models because we can not measure the impact each forcing agent has on temperature alone.
Of course you're going to see a warming trend of late if you base your temperature
estimates on a climate model that has warming built into it.
It did, providing yet another independent accuracy
check on climate modeling, or at least the climate model (s) that was used by the scientists involved in this study.
To predict the consequences of carbon emissions, we must therefore rely
on climate models built from our best understanding of how the climate system works.
Feel free to conduct a survey
papers on climate models, and let us know what the percentage fall in the category of agreeing that «most» is caused by humans.
Which are, it should be explicitly noted, not
based on any climate model, but rather on a rather straight - forward statistical analysis.
Out of dozens of researchers at the CRU, 95 % of the 1,073 emails released were sent or received by Phil Jones, the head of the CRU; Professor Keith Briffa, who studied tree rings; Tim Osborn, who
worked on climate modeling for modern and archaeological data; and Mike Hulme, director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research.
GEOG 5100: Climate System Modeling This is a hands on research seminar
focusing on climate model development from the simplest to most complex models culminating with a final research project designing and analyzing a General Circulation climate model experiment.
The «2nd WCRP Summer School
on Climate Model Development» on «Scale aware parameterization for representing sub-grid scale processes» initially scheduled this summer has been postponed.
The Finnish Meteorological Institute has participated in research to estimate, based
on climate model results and measurements, the maximum amount of carbon dioxide that can be released into the atmosphere without passing the climate warming limits set by the Paris Climate Agreement.
«Based
on climate model studies and the history of the Earth the authors conclude that additional global warming of about 1 °C (1.8 °F) or more, above global temperature in 2000, is likely to be dangerous.»
The IPCC
chapter on climate models appears to justify use of the models by saying they show an increase in temperature when CO2 is increased.
In the fall course, we watched the TED
talk on climate models by Gavin Schmidt, the director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, then spent two illuminating hours with him.
The «2nd WCRP Summer
School on Climate Model Development» on «Scale aware parameterization for representing sub-grid scale processes» initially scheduled this summer has been postponed.
There is an interesting news article ($) in Science this week by Paul Voosen on the increasing amount of transparency
on climate model tuning.
In 1971, the Washington Post reported that research based
on climate modeling developed by NASA scientist James Hansen predicted that glaciers would cover much of the globe within 50 years — by 2021 — because of mankind's fossil - fuel dust blotting out the sun.
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There are plenty of
article on climate modeling on this site — explaining what they are, what they are used for, why you can't get a perfect model and how they are evaluated and how we decide what they are (and are not) useful for.
«We're looking for more Michigan - or Great Lakes - level
detail on a climate model, which we haven't seen yet,» said Niles Annelin, an environmental policy specialist at the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT).