Tag Archives: climate prediction

Why model climate?

August 26, 2014 · by · in Climate, Communication, Presentations · 5 Comments

I wrote a talk on climate modelling, aimed at the interested-but-non-specialist public.  Here it is. It touches on: 1) The choices we have to make as a society. 2) The difficulty of doing controlled experiments with a single Earth. 3) The idea of a climate model. 4) A really simple climate model from first principles. […]

Constraining climate models with observations

April 16, 2013 · by · in Papers, statistics · 2 Comments

This post is an introduction to our new paper, The potential of an observational data set for calibration of a computationally expensive computer model, for non specialists. The paper is in open review, and so can be commented on by anybody. We would appreciate feedback, so please consider making a comment at the open review […]