Previous studies had to arbitrarily specify the behavior of the physical climate system in order to invoke a biogeochemical mechanism for the glacial CO 2 changes, be it an arbitrarily specified change in the vertical ocean mixing [Toggweiler, 1999], or arbitrarily specified sea ice cover changes [Stephens and Keeling, 2000].
The physical mechanisms behind the behavior of the global climate feedback parameter still need to be established.
He acknowledged that he and other climate scientists had done a "lousy job" of communicating what is known and not known about the behavior of the earth's climate and that they had not responded adequately to critics of their work.
"Without the support of Nasa, not only the US but the entire world would be taking a hard hit when it comes to understanding the behavior of our climate and the threats posed by human-caused climate change," he said.
So, free market ideology can't explain the abnormal behavior of the Republican Party on climate change.
IF there is a great guru among the relatively small group of scientists who try to fathom the present and future behavior of the earth's climate by studying how it has behaved in the past, it has to be 66-year-old Wallace S. Broecker: part crusty curmudgeon and blunt-spoken iconoclast, part imp and practical joker -- but all intellect.
The point of this series of exercises is that we can use a logical process to deduce the behavior of important parts of the climate system.
GFDL is a leading research center in the development and use of mathematical models and computer simulations to improve our understanding and prediction of the behavior of the atmosphere, ocean and climate.
To understand such interactive behavior of the carbon cycle and climate, Friedlingstein et al. ([2003]) proposed a simple mathematical expression to link carbon balance and environmental changes: Δ C L, O = β L, O Δ C A + γ L, O Δ T (2).
