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2 - Global Climate Models

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 February 2021

Rao Kotamarthi ,
Katharine Hayhoe ,
Linda O. Mearns ,
Donald Wuebbles ,
Jennifer Jacobs  and
Jennifer Jurado
Rao Kotamarthi
Affiliation:
Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois
Katharine Hayhoe
Affiliation:
Texas Tech University
Linda O. Mearns
Affiliation:
National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado
Donald Wuebbles
Affiliation:
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Jennifer Jacobs
Affiliation:
University of New Hampshire
Jennifer Jurado
Affiliation:
Environmental Planning and Community Resilience Division, Broward County, Florida
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Summary

Global models of the Earth’s climate system are the primary tool scientists use to understand the Earth’s climate system. They yield critical insights into the components of the earth’s climate system, including the atmosphere, land, oceans, and biosphere, the processes at work within and between them, and how natural factors and human activities affect climate at the regional to global scale. This chapter summarizes the evolution of climate modeling and describes current global climate models and how they are being used to study the changing climate.

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global climate modelsspatial resolutioncomponents of GCMs ensemblesmodel intercomparisonsub-grid scaleparameterizationglobal scale
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Downscaling Techniques for High-Resolution Climate Projections
From Global Change to Local Impacts
 , pp. 19 - 39
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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