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.
Global Warming FAQs. A NASA computer climate model reinforces the long-standing theory that low solar activity could have changed the atmospheric circulation in the Northern Hemisphere from the 1400s to the 1700s and triggered a Little Ice Age in several regions including North America and Europe.