Are climate models detecting monsoon changes a decade too early? 'Super-simulations' say yes

Changes in rainfall within global monsoon regions affect the livelihoods of billions. For years, climate models have ...

New generation of climate models sheds first light on long-standing Pacific puzzle

Researchers have long been puzzled by the observed cooling of the eastern tropical Pacific and the Southern Ocean accompanying global warming. Existing climate models have failed to capture this ...

Making sense of a chaotic planet: How understanding weather and climate risks depends on supercomputers like NCAR’s

Have you ever stopped to wonder how forecasters can predict the weather days in advance, or how scientists figure out how the climate might evolve under different policies? The Earth system is a vast ...
Opinion

Rethinking climate change: Natural variability, solar forcing, model uncertainties, and policy implications

Current global climate models (GCMs) support with high confidence the view that rising greenhouse gases and other anthropogenic forcings account for nearly all observed global surface warming—slightly ...
Acsh.org

Our Best Climate Models Are Never Finished

Models, by definition, are approximations: useful, informative, and inevitably incomplete, because they are the only way to simplify a world too complex to grasp all at once. A new study on nitrous ...
The Conversation

What would a climate model made from music sound like? This team of artists and scientists has created one

Louise Devenish receives funding from the Australian Research Council. This article includes contributions from the Dark Oceanography team: Louise Devenish (Monash University), Kate Milligan ...
Salon

White House proposal could gut climate modeling the world depends on

This article originally appeared on ProPublica. Over the past two months, the Trump administration has taken steps to eliminate regulations addressing climate change, pull back funding for climate ...

Economic Models Understating Climate Change Challenges, Study Finds

The report warns many economic models are failing to capture extreme weather events and rising uncertainty likely to dominate impacts in a hotter world.