The societal need for reliable climate predictions and a proper assessment of their
uncertainties is pressing. Uncertainties arise not only from initial conditions and forcing …

IMA Conference on the Mathematics of the Climate System; Reading, United Kingdom, 13–
15 September 2011 About 40 researchers attended a conference by the Institute for …

Predictions of future climate are of central importance in determining actions to adapt to the
impacts of climate change and in formulating targets to reduce emissions of greenhouse …

The climate system of the earth is one of the most complex systems presently investigated by
scientists. The physical compartments—atmosphere, hydrosphere and cryosphere—can be …

The physics of numerical analysis: a climate modelling case study | Philosophical Transactions
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Over the last 20 years, climate models have been developed to an impressive level of
complexity. They are core tools in the study of the interactions of many climatic processes …

Predictions of future climate are based on elaborate numerical computer models. As
computational capacity increases and better observations become available, one would …

In the 1960s, theoretical biologist Richard Levins criticised modellers in his own discipline of
population biology for pursuing the “brute force” strategy of building hyper-realistic models …

Understanding the Earth's climate system and predicting its behavior under a range of “what
if” scenarios are among the greatest challenges for science today. The stakes are high, and …

Our understanding of the climate system has been revolutionized recently, by the
development of sophisticated computer models. The predictions of such models are used to …