Event time:
Monday, February 15, 2016 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Location:
Sloane Physics Laboratory (SPL), 59
(Location is wheelchair accessible)
217 Prospect St.
New Haven, CT
06511
Event description:
Climate is a large-scale phenomenon that emerges from complicated interactions among small-scale physical systems. Yet despite the phenomenon’s complexity, climate models have demonstrated some impressive successes. Climate projections made with sophisticated computer codes inform the world’s policymakers about the potential dangers of anthropogenic interference with Earth’s climate system, attribute historical changes to various drivers and test hypotheses for climate changes in the past. But what physics goes into the models, how are the models evaluated, and how reliable are they?