The only way for energy to enter or leave my climate simulation is through radiation. As is discussed more formally below, energy enters via solar radiation, and energy leaves via black-body radiation. I’m starting with this because these two phenomena drive the entire climate system. Without them, winds and weather can’t exist. With only radiation, […]
I’m doing this a little out of order. Why groundwater and erosion first? Modeling the water layer on and in the ground is an isolated section of climate simulation. Whereas the air modeling has interdependent parts (radiation, convection, etc.), the groundwater system is self-contained except for precipitation and evaporation. I can easily implement a dummy […]
Unlike plate tectonics, computational climate simulation has an enormous body of research because of modern meteorology. Although we often we joke about incorrect weather forecasts, it’s pretty amazing how accurately we can model the entire atmosphere days in advance. With climate simulation we have the opposite problem. Modern Global Climate Models are so detailed that it’s […]
This week I encountered an interesting simulation stability bug in my climate. All the air in my simulation was steadily traveling from low to high altitude. I haven’t posted on my climate simulation section yet so here’s a little background on how it works. I hope it’s enough to help this post make sense. My […]