Sentences with phrase «simple toy models»

Tamino has been remarkably successful as estimating global SAT using simple toy models, as has BPL.

Lessons from simple toy models and experience with more sophisticated GCMs suggests that any perturbation to the TOA radiation budget from whatever source is a pretty good predictor of eventual surface temperature change.

You can see how controversial this simple toy model was.

If you want equations, this was all worked out in a simple toy model a while back.

Not exact matches

It is also a little more expensive than some models, especially considering that it is a simple bouncer without any toys or gadgets to entertain baby.

A child who has mastered simple kids» ride - on toys like push - scooters — or an older child who has not yet tried a scooter — will often ask for a faster, more exciting electric model.

A feeding puzzle can be any toy or object that can contain food and requires the pet to work to find a way to get to that food.3 A wide variety of commercial feeding puzzles from companies such as Kong, Premier, and Nina Ottosson is available at pet stores and online, ranging from relatively simple toys that scatter food as they are «hunted» to complex, expensive models that require problem solving (FIGURE 1).

The basic physics is illustrated very nicely in a simple «toy model» developed by Thomas Stocker and Sigfus Johnsen.

So I would recommend — modestly — that skeptics try very hard not to buy into this and redirect all such discussions to questions such as why the models are in such terrible disagreement with each other, even when applied to identical toy problems that are far simpler than the actual Earth, and why we aren't using empirical evidence (as it accumulates) to reject failing models and concentrate on the ones that come closest to working, while also not using the models that are obviously not working in any sort of «average» claim for future warming.