Climate Models - NOAA Climate.gov
2014年11月21日 · Climate models, also known as general circulation models or GCMs, use mathematical equations to characterize how energy and matter interact in different parts of the ocean, atmosphere, land.
Climate Models - MIT Climate Portal
Climate models are computer programs that simulate weather patterns over time. By running these simulations, climate models can estimate the Earth’s average weather patterns—the climate—under different conditions.
Climate Models Can’t Explain What’s Happening to Earth
2025年1月6日 · Similarly, models approximate topography, because the scale at which mountain ranges undulate is smaller than the resolution of global climate models, which tend to represent Earth in, at best ...
Climate model - Wikipedia
Climate models are systems of differential equations based on the basic laws of physics, fluid motion, and chemistry. Scientists divide the planet into a 3-dimensional grid and apply the basic equations to those grids.
Basics of Global Climate Models | USDA Climate Hubs
Global climate models are computer programs that consist of several hundred thousand lines of code. They calculate the interactions between the ocean, atmosphere and land using factors such as water vapor, carbon dioxide, heat, and the Earth’s rotation as inputs.
What Are Climate Models and How Accurate Are They?
2018年5月18日 · When creating climate models, scientists use one of three common types of simple climate models: energy balance models, intermediate complexity models, and general circulation models.
Climate Models - NOAA Climate.gov
This video explains how scientists construct computer-generated climate models to forecast weather, understand climate, and project climate change. It discusses how different types of climate models can be used and how scientists use computers to build these models.
What is a climate model? - NCAS
A climate model is a computer simulation of the Earth’s climate system, including the atmosphere, ocean, land and ice. They can be used to recreate the past climate or predict the future climate.
Climate Modeling - Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
A global climate model (GCM) is a complex mathematical representation of the major climate system components (atmosphere, land surface, ocean, and sea ice), and their interactions. Earth’s energy balance between the four components is the key to long-term climate prediction.
Chapter 4: Climate Models, Scenarios, and Projections - Global …
Today, global climate models simulate many more aspects of the climate system: atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, land surface interactions including soil and vegetation, land and sea ice, and increasingly even an interactive carbon cycle and/or biogeochemistry.