Climate examples#

One executed example per breakthrough in Breakthroughs in Climate, in chronological order, each with an asserted check of the result it shows. Download the Python source or notebook from each page. Climate: units, equations and validation records units and limits; all examples use deterministic synthetic inputs and require no downloads.

Fourier’s greenhouse (1824)

Fourier's greenhouse (1824)

Foote’s heated carbon dioxide (1856)

Foote's heated carbon dioxide (1856)

Stefan’s fourth-power law (1879)

Stefan's fourth-power law (1879)

Arrhenius’s sensitivity to CO2 (1896)

Arrhenius's sensitivity to CO2 (1896)

Milanković’s orbital insolation (1920)

Milanković's orbital insolation (1920)

Callendar’s measured warming (1938)

Callendar's measured warming (1938)

Revelle and Suess’s buffer factor (1957)

Revelle and Suess's buffer factor (1957)

Keeling’s curve (1958)

Keeling's curve (1958)

Manabe and Wetherald’s radiative-convective equilibrium (1967)

Manabe and Wetherald's radiative-convective equilibrium (1967)

Budyko and Sellers’s ice-albedo feedback (1969)

Budyko and Sellers's ice-albedo feedback (1969)

Hasselmann’s stochastic climate (1976)

Hasselmann's stochastic climate (1976)

The Charney report’s sensitivity range (1979)

The Charney report's sensitivity range (1979)

Hansen’s ocean heat uptake (1981)

Hansen's ocean heat uptake (1981)

Myhre’s forcing formulas (1998)

Myhre's forcing formulas (1998)

Gregory’s forcing-feedback regression (2004)

Gregory's forcing-feedback regression (2004)

Thermal expansion and ice melt in the sea-level budget (2005)

Thermal expansion and ice melt in the sea-level budget (2005)

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