Present and Future of Modeling Global Environmental Change: Toward Integrated Modeling
Abstract—The impacts of the distributions of land ice and sea ice on planetary climate are extremely important, both regionally and globally. The clearest possible appreciation of this fact derives from a comparison of modern climate with the climate of the Last Glacial Maximum at 21,000 years befor...
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| Online Access: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.503.2636 http://www.terrapub.co.jp/e-library/toyota/pdf/221.pdf |
| Summary: | Abstract—The impacts of the distributions of land ice and sea ice on planetary climate are extremely important, both regionally and globally. The clearest possible appreciation of this fact derives from a comparison of modern climate with the climate of the Last Glacial Maximum at 21,000 years before present (BP). The analysis of LGM climate described in this paper is based primarily upon a new sequence of numerical simulations that have been performed with the Climate System Model (CSM) of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). These analyses are apparently the first to attempt to obtain a new statistical equilibrium solution for a complete coupled atmosphere-ocean model for this epoch of time. Intercomparisons of the results of the new CSM integrations are described with a number of previous analyses that employed a variety of different models and modelling strategies. |
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