Does the Senate really need to confirm 1,200 executive branch jobs? By Brad Plumer By Brad Plumer July 16, 2013 Follow @bradplumer The Senate has been bickering all day over how to confirm President Obama's nominees for various executive-branch positions.
The climate calculated by the GCM is used as input at the edges of the RCM for factors such as temperature and wind. RCMs can then resolve the local impacts given small scale information about orography (land height) and land use, giving weather and climate information at resolutions as fine as 50 or 25km.
Teaching students about the value of models in scientific research is directly linked to how the nature of science works. This slideshow takes students through that process. A global climate model is a mathematical representation of the interactions between and within the ocean, land, ice, and atmosphere. Greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere will continue to increase unless the billions of tons of our annual emissions decrease substantially.