What Is a Climate Model and How Does It Work?
Union of Concerned Scientists
MARCH 19, 2025
Climate models are the main tool climate scientists use to predict how Earth will respond to more heat-trapping pollutants in the atmosphere. But what exactly is a climate model? Lets start off easy by breaking down the phrase climate model.” The climate is simply the weather averaged over a long period of time. A model in this case is a physical approximation of a complex system.
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