Historic risk data and 10-day weather forecasts are no longer enough to plan disaster response and decide locations for hospitals, schools, and housing.

Current models calculate climate futures in a grid of cells that approximate processes on land, water, and air. But their resolution is so coarse they can account for only limited features.

These models divide the planet into a three-dimensional grid, with each cell representing a specific portion of the atmosphere or ocean. Equations are then applied to simulate physical processes ...

Halving the size of cells requires roughly ten times more computing power; today’s models, thousands of times more powerful, can simulate cells of around 50km per side. Read more: Climate change ...

Real world measurements of how much extra heat the Earth is trapping are well beyond most climate models. That’s a real ...

Accurate local predictions demand models that operate on finer scales, which requires computational power far beyond what’s currently available. If we want to predict Earth’s future climate ...

Climate models are a key technology in predicting the impacts of climate change. By running simulations of the Earth’s climate, scientists and policymakers can estimate conditions like sea level rise, ...

Plants Are Using Much More CO2 Than Climate Models Assume. A study recently published in the journal Nature finds plants have been absorbing 31 percent more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere than ...

The social-climate system article builds on other recent efforts to link climate models with social models, such as a 2021 Nature commentary calling for climate models to “get real about people.” ...

Sunaina Sinha Haldea heads the board of SFC Energy AG, whose fuel cells are helping to provide continuous and safer power to remote areas. By Shivani Vora This article is part of a Women and ...

Despite significant improvements in recent years, there is an urgent need for insurers to improve climate models (“How Insurers Game Out Disaster Risk,” Property Report, May 1). Most climate ...