Introduction to Climate Models

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As the issue about climate models has arisen on numerous occasions, here’s a good introduction from University of Arizona paleoclimatologist Jessica Tierney featuring NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies Director Gavin Schmidt:

In terms of model performance, here’s a recent paper that evaluates the performance of climate models:

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2019GL085378

 

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Carbon Brief has a couple of excellent articles as well.

https://www.carbonbrief.org/qa-how-do-climate-models-work

https://www.carbonbrief.org/cmip6-the-next-generation-of-climate-models-explained