Trends: Climate Modelling

Brad Marston [Physics, 4:20(2011)] suggests physicists think about tackling climate problems, e.g., how to model climate. He wrote, "In this article, I discuss specific advances in nonequilibrium statistical physics that have direct applications on efforts to understand and predict the climate. (For an excellent introduction to the general science of climate change, see David Archer’s Global Warming: Understanding the Forecast [3].) But first, let’s look at the sort of question a statistical description of the climate system would be expected to answer."