Testing and evaluating atmospheric climate models

Computing in Science and Engineering - Tập 4 Số 5 - Trang 64-69 - 2002
V. Pope1, T. Davies1
1Met Office

Tóm tắt

Model validation is a crucial process that underpins model development and gives confidence to the results from running models. This article discusses a range of techniques for validating atmosphere models given that the atmosphere is chaotic and incompletely observed.

Từ khóa

#Testing #Atmospheric modeling #Atmosphere #Equations #Physics #Chemistry #Chaos #Robust stability #Oceans #Ice

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