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JOURNAL OF ADVANCES IN MODELING EARTH SYSTEMS
Volume 9, Issue 4, Pages 1760-1771Publisher
AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
DOI: 10.1002/2017MS001038
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- Simons Foundation
- Working Group on Climate Modeling of the World Climate Research Programme
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To understand Earth's climate, climate modelers employ a hierarchy of climate models spanning a wide spectrum of complexity and comprehensiveness. This essay, inspired by the World Climate Research Programme's recent Model Hierarchies Workshop,'' attempts to survey and synthesize some of the current thinking on climate model hierarchies, especially as presented at the workshop. We give a few formal descriptions of the hierarchy and survey the various ways it is used to generate, test, and confirm hypotheses. We also discuss some of the pitfalls of contemporary climate modeling, and how the elegance'' advocated for by Held (2005) has (and has not) been used to address them. We conclude with a survey of current activity in hierarchical modeling, and offer suggestions for its continued fruitful development.
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