Climate models and long-term temperature variability

A study finds that the current suite of global climate models can adequately simulate the spectrum of temperature variability at timescales ranging from years to multiple millennia, suggesting that with accurate initial and boundary conditions, particularly in the deep ocean, the models contain the necessary components to forecast temperature variations at such timescales.

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Article #18-09959: "Climate models can correctly simulate the continuum of global-average temperature variability," by Feng Zhu et al.

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