Its purpose is to accelerate advances in predicting short-term climate and speed the practical application of that skill around the world.
Such parameterizations are an essential tool for predicting weather and climate.
They are also used to try to predict future climate and the effect that changes to the atmosphere caused by humans may have on the Arctic and beyond.
At issue are computer models used to predict water infiltration and climate over hundreds of thousands of years.
Certain scientists, skeptics and otherwise, believe this confidence in the models' ability to predict future climate is not earned.
Because carbon-14 cycles are quasi periodic, Damon and Sonett (1989) predict future climate:
Without the fundamental understanding, it does not seem possible to predict climate.
However, the new work illuminates the importance of properly taking aerosol forcings into account, as they remain one of the major uncertainties in predicting future climate.
To understand what this means for humanity, it is necessary to understand what global warming is, how scientists know it's happening, and how they predict future climate.
How do scientists predict future climate?