Climate Models and their Limitations (General/Miscellaneous)

Click on the links below to access reviews of the scientific literature on this topic that have been published since the 2009 NIPCC report.

How Well Do Climate Models Mimic Atmospheric Teleconnections? (15 May 2013)
Modeling Northern Hemispheric Winters (30 April 2013)
Biases in the Output of Global and Regional Circulation Models (9 April 2013)
Modeling the Link Between ENSO and North Australian SSTs (13 February 2013)
Model Simulations of Climatic Effects of Volcanic Eruptions (5 February 2013)
Drifting Along with the CMIP3 Models (2 January 2013)
Going Back in Time: The (un)Predictability of Climate (5 December 2012)
An Astronomically-Based Decadal-Scale Climate Model vs. All of the IPCC (2007) General Circulation Models of the Atmosphere (27 November 2012)
Testing Version 4 of the Community Climate System Model (6 November 2012)
Examining Flow Variability in a Simple Model: Friction in Jet Stream Behavior (30 October 2012)
With a Hint and a Nudge, Climate Model Downscaling Can be Improved (17 October 2012)
The Weather Research and Forecasting Model: Turning a Weather Model into a Climate Model (16 October 2012)
Simulating the Present-Day Arctic Atmosphere (5 September 2012)
The South Pacific Convergence Zone: A Real "Swinger" Under the Influence of CO₂? (21 August 2012)
Tropical Influences on North Pacific Sea Surface Temperatures (14 August 2012)
A Model Passes the Test for Tropical Cyclones (18 July 2012)
New Model Test Experiments, Same old Results (27 June 2012)
The Siberian High in a Supposedly Warming World (17 April 2012)
Climatic Impacts of Intermittent Tropical Cyclone-Induced Alterations in Sea Surface Temperature (11 April 2012)
Historical Simulations of an Astronomically-Based Climate Model vs. Those of the Global Circulation Models Promoted by the IPCC (21 March 2012)
The Relative Merit of Multiple Climate Models (21 February 2012)
Global Climate Models and Simulating the Arctic: How do They Perform in the Cold? (1 February 2012)
Exciting El Niño News: More Evidence of a Solar Trigger (4 January 2012)
ENSO Variability Over the Past Millennium (3 January 2012)
Trying to Understand Interactions Among Isoprene, Ozone and Methane within the Context of Rising Air Temperatures and CO₂ Concentrations (21 December 2011)
The Madden Julian Oscillation (MJO): A Climate Model Increases its "Mojo" (20 December 2011)
The Next Forty Years of Hypothetical Global Warming (29 November 2011)
Predicting Future Climate: How Good Are Today's Models? (22 November 2011)
Regional Climate Modeling: Are Prospects for Improvement Dim or Brightening? (15 November 2011)
Abrupt Climate Change Simulations (26 October 2011)
Predicting the Course of Climate Change Over the Next Decade (25 October 2011)
Tropical Cyclones: The Models Project More of Them in Our Future, or is it Fewer (12 October 2011)
Interannual Variability of 20th-Century Climate in CMIP3 Models (11 October 2011)
One More Alarmist Claim Not Supported by the Latest Science -- Fears of a Permanent El Niño (4 October 2011)
Getting Back to Basics: Atmospheric Blocking (4 October 2011)
Assessing Model Performance: Are All Models Created Equal? (21 September 2011)
Atmospheric Models: Keeping It Simple (6 September 2011)
Will It Be Species Extinction or Species Persistence? (10 August 2011)
Microrefugia: An Important Hedge Against Extinction (26 Jul 2011)
Why Climate Change Effect Studies are Pessimistic (20 Jul 2011)
Atmospheric Models: Keeping it Simple (19 Jul 2011)
Detecting the Footprint of Man in Tropical Cyclone Damage Data (7 June 2011)
Climate Models Need to Render the Past Before Projecting the Future (25 May 2011)
Using Statistical Models to Understand Earth's Climate: The Intertropical Convergence Zone (26 April 2011)
Model Assessments of Warming-Induced Changes in the Frequency of Northern Hemisphere Summer Cyclones (6 April 2011)
Getting to the "Core" of Output Differences as Produced by Climate Models (30 March 2011)
A Shifting of Paradigms in the Study of Ice-Sheet Grounding Lines (16 March 2011)
The Late-1980 Extratropical Warming of the Northern Hemisphere (9 March 2011)
The Relative Merit of Multiple Climate Models (8 March 2011)
Three Decades of Modeling Climate Sensitivity to CO₂ (2 March 2011)
Have Natural Variations in the Arctic and North Atlantic Region influenced Recent Global Temperatures? (26 January 2011)
Improving GCMs through the Representation of Aerosol Composition (25 January 2011)
Natural Variability, Not CO₂, Accounts for Late 20th Century Warming (6 January 2011)
Atmospheric Blocking and Extreme Weather Events (5 January 2011)
Irreversible CO₂-Induced Global Warming? (22 December 2010)
ENSO Prediction by Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Models (17 November 2010)
Climatic Change Effects on Earth's Biosphere (22 September 2010)
Highly Uncertain Forecasts of Future European Climate (26 August 2010)
How Good Are Current Climate Models? (22 July 2010)
Assessing the Skill of Coupled Atmosphere-Land-Ocean Climate Models (16 July 2010)
Climate Models Are Sensitive to Errors in Initial Conditions (14 June 2010)