Climate prediction as an initial value problem
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Weather prediction may be viewed as a subset of climate predictions such that both are considered initial value problems. This contrasts with the common view of treating climate predictions as boundary value problems in which ocean and land surfaces are fixed in time. The surfaces are also deemed to change independently of the atmosphere. On the other hand, the initial value problem treatment of climate regards changes in ocean and land surfaces as forces that interact with atmospheric changes in the same time period.
Publication Name: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
Subject: Earth sciences
ISSN: 0003-0007
Year: 1998
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U.S. Department of Energy opens climate research facility in tropics
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The Dept of Energy opened its new climate research station in Nauru on Nov 20, 1998. The facility will be used to gather data on climate change, with emphasis on the way the sun's energy is transmitted, absorbed and reflected in tropical regions and the impact of clouds on atmospheric temperature. The facility was built in Nauru because of its location on the eastern edge of the Pacific 'warm pool' where the warmest sea surfaces and cummulus and cirrus cloud systems are produced.
Publication Name: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
Subject: Earth sciences
ISSN: 0003-0007
Year: 1999
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