Sentences with phrase «testing numerical climate models»
Climatic changes in past geologic epochs, as inferred from the sedimentary record, provide important insight and understanding for developing, calibrating, and testing numerical climate models that strive to predict future climate change.
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That requires considerable sensitivity research with state - of - the art numerical weather prediction (and climate) models... This hand - waving theory may not hold up when a rigorous scientific hypothesis is tested, yet McKibben does not provide a citation or reference aside from Masters» quotations, which are not peer - reviewed in the slightest.»
(http://blackjay.net/?p=335)(2) The «Bomb Test Curve» of declining 14C in the atmosphere indicates that CO2 has a half - time in the atmosphere of only 10 years, not the hundreds of years of the Bern Model used in numerical climate models.
In conclusion, the thesis advocates that GCMs be used and developed uncompromisingly for «Hypothesis testing, numerical experiments, to understand how the climate system works, including its sensitivity to altered forcing,» such a policy to continue until climate model building becomes better understood.
These simulations can be used as a numerical laboratory in which we can test the reconstruction methods and assess their potential limitations, by pretending to derive proxy records of the model climate, called «pseudo-proxies».