You didn't need to understand the physics of how a theoretical climate model works to understand the picture that our hockey stick was telling about the unprecedented nature of climate change; it represented a potent icon and it was attacked.
In comparison, regional climate models (RCMs) work in a small area of interest and can provide climate information at resolution as fine as 25 - 50 km.
Better predictions would require improved climate-measurement tools, more sophisticated climate models that work on regional scales, and a better organized system to integrate all the data, the report concludes.
At small cartographic scales, a climate-only model worked nearly as well as a climate-and-soils model in mapping the region's soil moisture boundary; however, a climate-only model missed important local soil influences.
…and extensively in climate models in the work of Clara Deser, see the paper in Nature Climate Change recently and articles such as this… Deser, C., A. S. Phillips, V. Bourdette, and H. Teng, 2012: "Uncertainty in climate change projections: The role of internal variability".
Dynamical downscaling works by employing a regional climate model (RCM), which is based on the same principles as a GCM but has higher resolution over a limited area.
A section of the piece on an emerging disconnect between climate model projections of warming and observations makes it clear that climate modelers have plenty of work to do.
We also acknowledge the GCM modeling groups, the Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison (PCMDI) and the WCRP's Working Group on Coupled Modelling (WGCM) for their roles in making available the WCRP CMIP3 multi-model dataset.
We acknowledge the modeling groups, the Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison (PCMDI) and the WCRP's Working Group on Coupled Modelling (WGCM) for their roles in making available the WCRP CMIP3 multi-model dataset.
In the new work, published in Geophysical Research Letters late last month, researchers modified an established climate model to gauge the effects of varying aerosol amount and size.
