How to improve climate modeling and prediction
TiPES scientists propose ideas for much more effective climate simulations than the traditional approach allows.
Setting up an Alarm System in the Atlantic Ocean
Laura Jackson and Richard Wood from The Met Office, UK have identified metrics that may give us early warnings of abrupt changes to the European Climate. An important goal in climate science is to establish early warning systems – a … Continued
Statistical mechanics is great improvement to complex climate models
The large uncertainties of climate models used in the IPCC reports might be reduced considerably by the use of statistical mechanics, TiPES study shows. A major challenge in climate prediction is the uncertainty on how we are going to deal … Continued
Coincidences influence the onset and ending of ice ages
An analysis of the so-called climate spectrum shows why the ice ages have not behaved precisely as the models predict. A large element of coincidence is involved when an ice age begins or ends, the analysis shows. TiPES scientist, Peter … Continued
The speed of an ice age
Grains of dust illustrate how fast a landscape is covered with ice after an ice age sets in. The shift from a relatively warm interglacial to proper ice age is a typical tipping point in the climate system. The climate … Continued