Introduction to Modern Climate Change

Chapter 04  ·  Resources

A Simple Climate Model

Energy-balance models, where to find simple ones you can run yourself, and another way to explain the greenhouse effect.

Models you can run

A different way to explain the greenhouse effect This YouTube video by Prof. Dessler describes a different way of explaining how the greenhouse effect operates.
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Simple climate models to play with in the classroom There are a lot of on-line resources that demonstrate simple climate physics. Steve Easterbrook has compiled a very useful list of them on his blog.
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Going further

Energy balance climate models The models described in this chapter are of a class known as energy-balance models. For a more mathematical discussion, check out this classic review paper: North, G. R., R. F. Cahalan, and J. A. Coakley Jr. (1981), Rev. Geophys., 19(1), 91–121.
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