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Research article
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29 Sep 2015
Research article |
| 29 Sep 2015
The ScaLIng Macroweather Model (SLIMM): using scaling to forecast global-scale macroweather from months to decades
Physics, McGill University, 3600 University St., Montreal, Que. H3A 2T8, Canada
L. del Rio Amador
Physics, McGill University, 3600 University St., Montreal, Que. H3A 2T8, Canada
R. Hébert
Physics, McGill University, 3600 University St., Montreal, Que. H3A 2T8, Canada
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Short summary
Numerical climate models forecast the weather well beyond the deterministic limit. In this “macroweather” regime, they are random number generators. Stochastic models can have more realistic noises and can be forced to converge to the real-world climate. Existing stochastic models do not exploit the very long atmospheric and oceanic memories. With skill up to decades, our new ScaLIng Macroweather Model (SLIMM) exploits this to make forecasts more accurate than GCMs.
Numerical climate models forecast the weather well beyond the deterministic limit. In this...
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