What does it mean to apply computer simulation to research in global warming?
In my research, I use super computers to simulate climate to predict future global warming. Some people mistakenly think that this means using a computer to crunch a large volume of observational data. That’s incorrect. The only data that are input into the computer are basic parameters like the size of the earth, the rotation, the land-sea distribution, and atmospheric components. After these parameters are applied to calculations to solve physics equations, a computer simulates rain in the rainforest, aridity in the desert, coldness in the polar areas, and weather patterns like low pressure or high. In other words, the simulation automatically generates conditions as they actually occur on earth. However, even though we have physics equations to describe the earth, that doesn’t mean we can accurately predict actual changes in climate. Global climate is extremely complex and is not yet fully understood by current science. For example, to simulate the occurrence of precipitation in clo
