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Originally Posted by aerohead
I'll let Neil speak for himself,but I'd like to offer up some of the variables which NASA has had to consider and incorporate into their numerical models (by no means a complete list):
*albedo
*Arctic shallow sea methane hydrates
*aspherity of inner core
*black swan events
*cloud type (temporal/spatial
*cloud cover (temporal/spatial
*cryosphere
*deep ocean heating
*dust storms
*ocean currents
*solar insolation
*solar plages
*convection
*conduction
*Antarctic cold lid
*ocean thermodynamics
*ocean fluid dynamics
*methane clathrates
*dissolved methane
*drought
*continental plate tectonics
*El Nino Southern Oscillation
*Decadal temp, oscillations
*relative humidity
*La Nina
*Dansgaard-Oeschaer oscillations
*Siberian permafrost methane eruptions,plumes
*volcanic sulfate aerosol eruptions
*evaporative salination
*evaporative cooling
*equatorial mass concentration
*meltwater stratification
*forest fires
*lunar cycles
*ice fractures
*general circulation models
*glacial disintigration
*greenhouse gas concentrations
*continental rebound
*hydrosphere\hydrological dynamics
*heat island effect
*heat conveyors
*hurricanes/typhoons/cyclones
*icebergs
*ice floes
*ice shelves
*infrared spectroscopy
*interhemispheric climate change
*inversions
*isotopic assays (carbon and oxygen)thermometry
*jet stream
*Keeling curve
*Kuroshio Current
*king tides
*lithosphere
*latent heat
*laser remote sensing of the atmosphere:
-atmospheric backscatter
-diiferential-absorption
-flourescence
-Raman
-(v) Doppler
*lapse rate dependency
*mesoscale problems
*meteorological drought
*Multivariate ENSO Index
*moulins glacial lubrication
*Milankovitch oscillations
*Maunder Minimum
*magnetic pole excursions
*magnetic reversals
*ocean heating
*ocean pH
*oceanic thermal expansion
*orbital forcings
*orbital spin axis
*orbital wobble
*precipitation
*polar vortex
*polyna
*peat decompostion
*paleopole
*salinity
*saltwater intrusion
*salt marsh
*sea floor spreading
*sea level
*sea surface temp
*snowfall
*seafloor hot spots (magma chambers,black smokers)
*snowmelt
*snowpack
*solar distribution
*solar flares
*solar minimum
*solar maximum
*steering winds
*storm surge
*Southern Meridional Overturning Current
*super moons
*supersaturated seawater (methane)
*swamps
*taliks
*tectonic thermal density plate subduction
*termites (methane)
*thermohaline circulation
*Tibet-Qinghai Plateau
*tornadoes
*tundra (melting)
*tidal surge
*trade winds
*tropical temperature variations
*undersea topography
*upwellings
*Walker Circulation
*water spouts
*water vapor radiative forcing
*West Antarctic Ice Sheet
*wetlands
*wildfires
*wind
*whitecaps
*wet-bulb temps
*Younger-Dryas
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And the only constant is, they still get it wrong.
How much time to you waste doing this?
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