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

It’s a model, just not the fierce kind Climate models are, at heart, giant bundles of equations —mathematical representations of everything we’ve learned about the climate system.

Solar energy plays a big role in the fight against climate change. As the world turns to solar power, concerns about the ...

For decades, scientists studying a key climate phenomenon have been grappling with contradictory data that have threated to undermine confidence in the reliability of climate models overall. A new ...

Running the models that project the future climate takes supercomputers the size of basketball courts. These models divide Earth and its atmosphere into thousands of representative cells and then ...

The Role of Climate Models in Understanding Our Planet Climate models are essential tools that scientists utilize to understand the complex dynamics of Earth's climate. These models are like ...

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

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.

Climate systems are social systems, too, and political scientists and the foreign policy community need to take that into account.

Sunaina Sinha Haldea heads the board of SFC Energy AG, whose fuel cells are helping to provide continuous and safer power to remote areas.

Climate change is reshaping the global water cycle, disrupting rainfall patterns and putting growing pressure on cities and ecosystems. Some regions are grappling with heavier rainfall and ...

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, ...